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[Reprinted from the AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 18, No. 2, April-June, 1916] 



SKELETAL MEASUREMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS OF 

 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO WITH COMPARI 

 SONS WITH OTHER ESKIMO GROUPS 



BY ERNEST WILLIAM HAWKES 



PREFACE 



PR the past six years the author has made an intensive study 

 of that very interesting people, the Eskimo. Between three 

 and four years of this time have been spent in work among 

 them, in Bering strait and on the Yukon river in Alaska/, and in 

 Labrador and Hudson bay in the east. Although the author has 

 been principally interested in the ingenious culture of these masters 

 of environment, the opportunity for physical observation has not 

 been neglected. Consequently, when an opportunity offered for 

 filling in a gap in the physical anthropology of the Eskimo, through 

 the presence of a very complete and fair-sized skeletal collection 

 from Point Barrow, Alaska, in the Wistar Institute of Anatomy in 

 Philadelphia, which had been left untouched since its collection in 

 1898, the author was very glad to supplement his information on 

 this subject. 



A year was spent on the material with the following results. 

 The collection was measured and its general characteristics out 

 lined and comparisons instituted with other Eskimo tribes. Later, 

 the comparison may be extended to include the Indians bordering 

 on the Eskimo. 



The author wishes to thank the University of Pennsylvania for 

 its cordial support in this work, and the Director of the Wistar Insti 

 tute of Anatomy for generous accommodations during the pursuit 

 of the same. He also wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to 

 Mr. Ralph Linton for the measurements of the long bones, and much 

 helpful assistance in the completion of the work. 



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