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facial traits from those of their compatriots. The aquiline nose of such 

 Yakuts makes them somewhat resemble the American Indians." 



Previous to lUzefovich's report, however, only four Yakut crania 

 had been described (one uncertain Yakut, by Virchow in Crania 

 Ethnica, 1882; and three by A. I. Kazantsev in Trudy of the East 

 Siberian Medical Institute, 1935). 



lUzefovich (1937, pp. 65-78) studied 34 crania that the Institute 

 of Anthropology and Ethnography (lAE) of the Academy of 

 Sciences of the U.S.S.R. had acquired between 1858 and 1928. Six of 

 the series belonged to Dolgan Yakuts, who are considered to be 

 Mongol-speaking Tungus and are treated separately. 



From his study of the 28 remaining crania lUzefovich concluded 

 that two distinct types actually exist among the Yakuts. He tabu- 

 lated their characteristics as follows : 



Type I Type 2 



Brachycephalic. Mesocephalic. 



Small cranial height. Great cranial height. 



Chamaecephalic. Hypsicephalic. 



Tapeinocephalic. Metriacephalic. 



Broad-faced. Very broad-faced. 



Long-faced. Very long-faced. 



Mesoprosopic. Leptoprosopic. 



Mesenic. Leptenic. 



Hypsiconch. Mesoconch. 



Mesorrhine. Leptorrhine. 



Chamaestaphyline. Orthostaphyline. 



Mesognathous. Orthognathous. 



The first group reveals a strong likeness to the Tungus of the North 

 Baikal region described by Roginskii. 



The second group is characterized by feebly expressed Mongoloid 

 characters. lUzefovich states, however, that this weakness of Mongo- 

 loid traits cannot be attributed to any Europeoid admixture. 



He suggests that two types took part in the formation of the Yakuts, 

 one of which had also played an important role in the development of 

 the Tungus physical type. 



CRANIOLOGY OF THE OROCHIS OF THE MARITIME AREA 



M. G. Levin,^^ of the Anthropological Institute of the State Uni- 

 versity in Moscow, remeasured a series of 19 Orochi crania at the 



39 Levin, M. G., Materialy po kraniologii Primorskikh Orochei [Materials 

 for the craniology of the Orochis from the Maritime Area]. AZH, No. 3, 

 PP- 323-326, 1936. 



