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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 



[N. s., 18, 1916 



Palatal Index. The palate of the Point Barrow Eskimo is 

 characterized by extreme breadth. In this racial feature they 

 slightly exceed the Central Eskimo. The present series gives a 

 palatal (external) index of 118.31 for males and 122.7 f r females, 

 and the Southampton island Eskimo 118.8 for males and 120 for 

 females (Hrdlicka). Within the Point Barrow series there is an 

 occasional skull in which the palate is longer and narrower than the 

 average. (Two male skulls give a palatal index of 106.78 and 109.80.) 

 But the general tendency is to a very broad palate. The palate of 

 the adolescent and infantile crania is relatively shorter than that of 

 the adults, but partakes of the characteristic horseshoe shape. 



The Mandible. The mandible of the Eskimo is characterized 

 by extreme bi-condylar width as is brought out in the mandibular 



TABLE 9 



ESKIMO CRANIA FROM POINT BARROW, ALASKA 

 Measurements of Mandible 



Skull 5864 belongs to complete skeleton (see measurements of long bones). 



