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the same individuals. On the covered parts of the body it is 

 as a rule yellowish-white , whereas on the face and especially 

 on the cheeks it changes over to reddish-brown or copper- 

 coloured. To the touch the skin is soft and somewhat oily. 

 The so-called "Mongolian spot" is present; 1 observed one 

 6 cm long and 3 cm broad on a 13 months old child; it lay 

 over the sacro-lumbar region along the vertebral column with 

 a slight asymmetry to the right side. 



All the individuals have dark-brown or brown eyes. In a 

 single case the colour of the eyes was nearly brownish black, 

 and in one older individual the iris was somewhat spread out, 

 so that the colour was almost light-brown. The opening of 

 the eyes was in most cases fairly even , but in several it 

 could be noticed, that the upper eyelid descended very far 

 down at the inner corner, so that this curved downwards 

 at a sharp angle. The whole opening of the eye might thus 

 appear somewhat oblique , though it in no case attained the 

 most distinct form of the oblique Mongolian eye. 



The colour of the hair did not differ appreciably in any case 

 from the pure black. Even the old Krulé only had some few 

 scattered gray hairs. The hair is smooth and coarse, but with a 

 tendency to be slightly wavy. It grows strongly and in quantities, 

 and no tendency was observed to baldness. The early loss of 

 hair, which the West Greenland cause by their tightly bound 

 hair-top, does not occur among the Polar Eskimos, as the hair 

 is here worn more loosely. One woman, the young Arnanguak, 

 was an exception in having such short hair that it could not 

 be bound up in "chignon", but hung loose. The greatest 

 length of hair I observed in any of the men was 48 cm ; the 

 rule was about 40 cm. There was but slight growth of a beard, 

 and this was further reduced by the habit of pulling out the 

 hairs of the beard , as the ice which forms in it in winter is 

 extremely troublesome and dangerous. 



The faces are broad and are chiefly characterized bv the 



