28 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT “ (ETH. ANN. 18 
only the tip of the person’s nose, the eyes and upper portion of the 
nose being completely hidden by the prominent outline of the cheek. 
Their eyes are less oblique than is common among the people living 
southward from the Yukon mouth. Among the people at the north- 
western end of St Lawrence island there is a greater range of physiog- 
nomy than was noted at any other of the Asiatic localities. 
The Point Hope people on the American coast have heavy jaws and 
well-developed superciliary ridges. At Point Barrow the men are 
remarkable for the irregularity of their features, amounting to a posi- 
tive degree of ugliness, which is increased and rendered specially 
prominent by the expression produced by the short, tightly drawn 
upper lip, the projecting lower lip, and the small beady eyes. The 
women and children of this place are in curious contrast, having rather 
pleasant features of the usual type. 
The Eskimo from upper Kowak and Noatak rivers, who were met 
at the summer camp on Hotham inlet, are notable for the fact that a 
considerable number of them have hook noses and nearly all have a 
cast of countenance very similar to that of the Yukon Tinné. They 
are a larger and more robustly built people than these Indians, how- 
ever, and speak the Eskimo language. They wear labrets, practice 
the tonsure, and claim to be Eskimo. At the same time they wear 
bead-ornamented hunting shirts, round caps, and tanned deerskin robes, 
and use conical lodges like those of the adjacent Tinné tribes. Among 
them was seen one man having a mop of coarse curly hair, almost 
negroid in character. The same feature was observed in a number of 
men and women on the Siberian coast between East cape and Plover 
bay. This latter is undoubtediy the result of the Chukchi-Eskimo 
mixture, and in the case of the man seen at Hotham inlet the same 
result had been brought about by the Eskimo-Indian combination. 
Among the Eskimo south of Bering strait, on the American coast, not 
a single instance of this kind was observed. The age of the individ- 
uals having this curly hair renders it quite improbable that it came 
from an admixture of blood with foreign voyagers, since some of them 
must have been born at a tine when vessels were extremely rare along 
these shores. As a further argument against this curly hair having 
come from white men, I may add that I saw no trace of it among a 
number of people having partly Caucasian blood. As a general thing, 
the Eskimo of the region described have small hands and feet and the 
features are oval in outline, rather flat, and with slightly oblique eyes. 
Children and young girls have round faces and often are very pleasant 
and attractive in feature, the angular race characteristics becoming 
prominent after the individuals approach manhood. The women age 
rapidly, and only a very small proportion of the people live to an 
advanced age. 
The Malemut and the people of Kaviak peninsula, including those 
of the islands in Bering strait, are tall, active, and remarkably well 
