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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 



[N. s., 18, 1916 



TABLE 5 



COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE PROPORTION BETWEEN BREADTH OF HEAD AND BREADTH 

 OF FACE OF ESKIMO GROUPS 



Living Measurements 



In nearly all cases where a sex differentiation has been made, 

 the male skulls show a proportion above 100 and the females below. 

 In series where no such differentiation has been made, as in Bessels 

 Smith sound Eskimo and Russell s Mackenzie Eskimo, the general 

 average is slightly over 100 (102 and 101), which may be considered 

 as the average between the two sexes. But these figures are mis 

 leading, in that they fail to bring out the pronounced facial breadth 

 in the male, and the lack of the same characteristic in the female. 

 Consequently, owing to the small number of female skulls measured, 

 and to their being lost sight of in the general average, the sex dif 

 ferentiation has been lost, and the extreme breadth of face em 

 phasized as a racial trait, when it holds good only for the males. 

 It will be remembered that a similar error was made in the case of the 

 Tasmanians. 



Facial Indices. The upper facial portion of the Point Barrow 



