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ARCHEOLOGY OF WESTERN ESKIMO 



165 



YUKON INDIAN, YUKON ESKIMO. AND WESTERN ESKIMO LONG 



BONES * 



Paired bones of the two sides 



Male 



Yukon 

 Indian 



Yukon 

 Eskimo 



South- 

 western 

 and mid- 

 western 

 Eskimo 



Female 



Y'ukon 

 Indian 



Yukon 

 Eskimo 



South- 

 western 

 and mid* 

 western 

 Eskimo 



Humerus: 



Mean length (right and left)-- 



At middle — 



Diameter, major 



Diameter, minor 



Indei 



Radius: 



Mean length.. 



Radio-humeral index. 



Femur: 



Mean length (bicond.) 



Humero-femoral index 



At middle — 



Diameter antero-posterior maxi- 



imiim 



Diameter lateral 



Index 



At upper flattening— 



Diameter, maximum 



Diameter, minimum 



Index 



Tibia: 



Mean length (I. A.) 



Tibio-femoral index. 



At middle — 



Diameter, antero-posterior max. 



imum_- 



Diameter, lateral. 



Index 



(10) 

 31.17 



2.38 

 1.67 

 70 



(10) 

 23.61 

 75.7 



(14) 

 41.92 

 74. 5 



2.96 

 2.58 



87.1 



3.25 

 2.30 



70.7 



(14) 

 34.19 

 81. 5 



3.04 

 2 

 66 



(16) 

 32.10 



2.33 

 1.80 

 78. t 



(16) 

 23.44 



7S 



(22) 

 43.78 

 n. 73 



3.05 

 2.67 

 87.6 



3.31 

 2.57 



77.4 



(22) 

 35.14 

 80. S 



3.16 

 2.15 



68. S 



(143) 

 30.69 



2.40 

 1.80 

 75.1 



(98) 

 22.90 

 74. 5 



(195) 

 42.50 



71. t 



3.08 



2.70 



87.6 



3.36 

 2.51 



75 



(141) 

 33.86 

 79.7 



3.12 

 2.12 



67.9 



(4) 

 28.12 



1.90 

 1.40 

 73.7 



(4) 

 21.10 



75 



(8) 

 40.15 

 78 



2.59 

 2.45 

 94.7 



2.84 

 2.16 

 75.8 



(8) 

 31.97 

 79.6 



2.72 



1.82 

 66.9 



(16) 

 28.31 



2.07 



1.51 

 73. t 



(16) 



2a is 



71.3 



(27) 

 41.11 

 n. 69 



2.74 

 2.44 



88.8 



3.02 

 2.27 



75.4 



(27) 

 32.01 



2.61 



1.90 

 7*.« 



(136) 

 28.40 



2.10 

 1.S4 

 73. t 



(109) 

 20.50 

 7t.£ 



(132) 

 39.36 



71. » 



2.69 

 2.46 



91.5 



3.02 

 2.26 

 74. S 



(147) 

 31.32 

 79.6 



2.71 

 1.89 

 69.9 



1 See also data on p. 160. 



NOTES ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN 

 ESKIMO REGION 



Archeological work in the vast area of the western Eskimo is still 

 in its infancy. Until the 1926 Smithsonian expedition nothing what- 

 ever had been done in this line in the Eskimo parts of the south- 

 western coasts of Alaska 25 or on the Kuskokwim or Yukon Rivers. 



Some time between 1877 and 1881 E. W. Nelson made limited exca- 

 vations on St. Michael Island 20 (see p. 170) and also dug on Whale 

 Island. 



25 Dall, W. H., and Jochelson, W., made, as is well known, valuable excavations In the 

 Aleutian Islands ; but the Aleuts were not Eskimos. (See Cat. of Crania, etc., D.S.N.M., 

 1924, 39.) 



M Nelson, E. W., The Eskimo About Bering Strait; Eighteenth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amor. 

 Ethn., pt. 1, Washington, 1899, p. 263. 



