PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



regions by various explorers, some of which might easily pass for por 

 traits of persons of our acquaintance at Point Harrow. 1 



The faee is broad, flat, and round, with high cheek bones and rather 

 low forehead, broad across the brow and narrowing above, while the 

 head is somewhat pointed toward the crown. The peculiar shape of the 



FIG. 2. Mfimfifiina, a woman of Nuwnk. 



head is somewhat masked by the way of wearing the hair, and is best 

 seen in the skull. The nose is short, with little or no bridge (few Eski 

 mo were able to wear our spring eye-glasses), and broad, especially , 

 across the al;e nasae, with a peculiar rouuded, somewhat bulbous tip, 



1 One young man at Point Barrow look.s remarkably like tUe well known &quot;Eskimo Joe,&quot; as I remem 

 ber him in Boston in the winter of !H62- 63, 





