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was taken by newspaper readers in our report of Eskimos of Prince 

 Albert Sound, Victoria Island, some of whom had light eyes and 

 other European-like physical characteristics not to be expected 

 among Eskimos, the pure type among whom is considered in es- 

 sentials similar to that of Chinamen — brown eyes more or less 

 oblique, stiff hair, high cheek bones, and the Chinese type of brown 

 complexion. During these days at the Star I got information on 

 this subject which I shall summarize here together with various 

 data of the same sort secured both before and later. 



At the Baillie Islands there was one family considered to be of 

 peculiar physical type by the natives and particularly by some 

 white men. My attention was first called to this family by Mr. 

 Christian Sten, commonly known as Christian Stein.* This was 

 at Shingle Point in the fall of 1906 when Mr. Sten was living 

 there in his own house and I with the Eskimo family of Memoranna, 

 commonly called by the whalers "Roxy." There were then living 

 with Mr. Sten the Eskimo Tulugak with his wife, Arnaretuak, 

 who was regarded by most of the white men as the handsomest of 

 all the Eskimo women, doubtless because she most nearly resembled 

 a white woman. She had an olive complexion lighter than many 

 Italians, the type of slightly curved nose found in handsome Jewish 

 women, and brown eyes not quite as brown as the Eskimo type 

 and without slant or other Mongol suggestion. Her hair was only 

 slightly lighter than the Eskimo black, if at all. 



Sten told me that he had known Arnaretuak's father, who 

 looked more like a white man than any Eskimo he could remember. 

 He did not say that he had light hair nor make any reference to any 

 particular European-like feature. This man had died at Cape 

 Parry the previous year, according to Sten's account. I found out 

 later when I came to live at Cape Parry that the grave was not 

 on the Cape proper but on the neck of the peninsula at a point 

 called Akkilinak, directly across the bay north from the whaler 

 harbor at Langton Bay. 



I heard nothing further about the peculiarities of this family 

 until now, when we had with us on the North Star Uttaktuak, the 

 wife of the Portuguese, Peter Lopez. Uttaktuak was the sister 

 of Arnaretuak and the daughter of the man described to me as 

 European-like by Sten. She told me that her father's mother had 

 not belonged to the Cape Bathurst people but had come from 



*For references to Mr. Sten, see "My Life With the Eskimo" and also 

 Roald Amundsen, "The Northwest Passage," New York, Vol. II, p. 138 and 

 elsewhere. 



