286 PKOCEEDIXGS OF THE CANADIAN IMSTirUTE. 



is very frequent amongst the Eskimo. Samuel Lain;^ ' compai-es the 

 skulls of the early stone period in Scandinavia with those of the 

 Eskimo, and Richard Owen,- speaking of crania from the Shetland 

 Islands ob5,erves that they "combine Teutonic features v/ith the 

 roof-shaped calvarium^ and supra-nasal depression of the Eskimo." 

 H. G. M. Murray Aynsley thinks that '• the race that lived in the 

 Stone-age is represented now by the Finns, the Lapps and the 

 Eskimo," and compares them in regard to colour, eyes, physical 

 appearance, etc., with the aborigines of the Spiti valley in the 

 Himalayas.* Broca ^ remarks the resemblance of the dolichocephalism 

 of the i-ace of Canstadt to that of the Eskimo. The correspondence 

 of the weapons of the men of the River-drift to those at present in 

 use amongst the Eskimo has been shown by Professor Dawkins,'' who 

 has also noted the j)eculiar aptitude for carving or scratch' ng draw- 

 ings on bone, which the relics of tiie Cave-men show th(im to have 

 possessed, and witli which the Eskimo are gifted to a remarkable 

 degree. It seems to me tlierefore that there is nothing absolutely 

 conclusive against Prof. Dawkins' tlieory, which enables us to solve 

 many ])i-oblems otherwise inexplicable. 



The exact relation which exists between the Eskimo race and the 

 various other aboriginal stocks of the American continent, has not 

 3'et been satisfactorily determined. That the Eskimo and some of 

 the Indian races of North America, have been brought into contact 

 in the remote past, I have, I think reasonably shown ; whether they 

 have sprung from the same original stock, remains an open question. 

 The measurements of Eskimo skulls bear a remai'kable resemblance 

 to those of prehistoric Crania from California and Brazil. The series 

 of crania from Sta. Barbara Islands and the vicinity, as seen from the 

 following table,^ approach in some respects, Eskimo skulls very 

 closely : — 



1. Journal Anthrop. Soc, 1865. p. 21. 



2. lb. p. ^i. 



a. Asiatic Symbolisin, Indian Antiquary, Bombay, Marcb 1S8C, p. 61. 



4. lb. p. 63. 



.5. Disc, de M. Broca. Pres. de I'Ass. franc;, p. I'.Av. d. 1. Sci., Havre 1877. 



6. Loc. cit. 



7. Peabody Mus., Rep. ii., 1876-9, p. .')68. 



