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The orbital index of the Botocudos accoixling to Cauestrini ^ brings 

 them closely in relation with the Eskimo and separates them from 

 the other American tribes. The description given by Ten Kate ^ 

 (who compares them to skulls from Lower California), of the crania 

 of Lagoa Santa in Brazil seems to invite comparison with the Eskimo. 

 A. H. Keane^ says Augustine St. Hilaire was much impressed by the 

 likeness of the Botocudos to the Chinese, and Peschel * and others 

 have discerned a likeness between the latter and the Eskimo. The 

 Botocudo cranium, says Keane,^ " is distinctly dolichocephalic, with a 

 mean index of 73.30 for males and 74 for females (extremes 71 to 79)," 

 and Peixoto,^ allies the Botocudo skull to that of the man of Lagoa 

 Santa. The uiesorrhine nasal index of the Eskimo approaches them 

 to the skulls from Sta. Cruz Is. (49), Sta. Barbara, mainland (48), 

 Sta. Clementina (47), Sta. Catalina (49), ani the Botocudos (46.76). 

 The average contents in cubic centimetres of Eskimo skulls given by 

 Schaffhausen (1391) and by Morton (1410), brings them in relation 

 with the Botocudos (1359), and the Araucanians (1402).^ 



These and other considerations, such as the frequency of the oblique 

 so-called " Mongoloid " eyes among the aborigines of Antioquia* 

 (Venezuela', and elsewhere, might lead one to the belief that at a 

 very remote period, the people now represented by the Eskimo, may 



1 Atti della Soc. ven. trent. di Sci. Nat. a Padova, 1880, vi. 2. 



2. Bull. Soc. d' Anthr. de Paris, Tome. 8, iii. Ser., Fasc. 2, 1885, p. 240. 



:i Jouru Anthr. Inst., 1884, p. 204. 



i. Races of Man, p. 39. 



b. Loc. cit., p. 211. 



6. Novos Estudios sobre os Botocudos, Rio Janeiro, 1882. 



7. Measurements given by O. T. Mason, Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1885, pt. i., p. 82. 



8. See the plates given by Dr. Andre Posado Aranzo — Sur les Aborig. d'Antioquia. Mem. Soc. 

 d' Anthrop. de Paris, ii Ser., Tome i., 1873, p. 231 



