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low vault, a relatively high cranial size and capacity, a broad face 

 in the males, giving relatively low facial indices, mesoseme to mod- 

 erately megaseme orbits, and mesorhinic nose. 



2. The Aleuts are plainly Indians of the general type prevailing in 

 the peninsula. 



3. No marks of distinction exist between the Alaska Indians at 

 large and the Athapascans. The Apache, who are the southernmost 

 branch of the Athapascans, show, however, the highest brachy- 

 cephaly and also the highest nasal index, of which the latter at least 

 may have been brought about by their present habitat in New Mexico 

 and Arizona. 



