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Alaska. The individual variation here is more conspicuous than in Labrador 

 or Hudson Bay. 



1923, Jenness : 73 



In his report on the Copper Eskimos, D. Jenness gives excellent descriptive 

 notes on this group with references to others. These notes, too voluminous to 

 he transcribed, may well be consulted in these connections. 



Older Anthropometric Data on the Western Eskimo 

 stature and other measurements on the living 



The earliest actual measurements of the living among the western 

 Eskimo are those given in Captain Beechey's Narrative (1832, p. 

 226), where we read that of the Eskimo of Cape Thompson (north of 

 Kotzebue Sound) " the tallest man was 5 feet 9 inches (175.3 centi- 

 meters), the tallest woman 5 feet 4 inches (162.6 centimeters) in 

 height." As seen before, Beechey also stated that the stature of the 

 Eskimo increases from the east to the west. 



In 1881-82, Lieutenant Kay collects and in 1885 reports evidently 

 careful measurements of 51 men and 30 women from the villages of 

 Uglaamie, at Cape Smythe, now Barrow, and Nuwuk, on Point 

 Barrow. 74 An abstract of the data shows as follows: 



Average height : Male, 5 feet 3% inches (161.3 centimeters) ; female, 4 feet 11% 



inches (151.8 centimeters). 

 Average weight : Male, 153% pounds ; female, 135% pounds. 

 Tallest male: 5 feet 8% inches (174.6 centimeters). 

 Tallest female: 5 feet 3 inches (160 centimeters). 

 Shortest male: 4 feet 11 inches (149.9 centimeters). 

 Shortest female: 4 feet Ys inch (123.2 centimeters). 

 Weight : Male, 126 to 204 pounds ; female, 106 to 172 pounds. 



In 1892, in connection with the preparation of the anthropological 

 exhibits for the World Exposition at Chicago, an extensive effort was 

 made under the direction of Frederick W. Putnam and Franz Boas 

 to secure, by the help of a group of specially instructed students, 

 physical data on many tribes of the American aborigines, and this 

 included a contingent of the western Eskimo. An abstract of the 

 results was reported by Boas in 1895." The locality where the 

 Eskimo were measured is not given, but it was most likely Nome 

 or St. Michael Island. Thirty-four men gave the high (for the 

 Eskimo) average of 165.8 centimeters, an unstated number of 

 women an equally elevated average of 155.1 centimeters. No details 



"Jenness, D., Physical characteristics of the Copper Eskimos. Rept. Canad. Arct. Exp. 

 1913-1918. Ottawa, 1923, p. 38. 



" Ray, Lieut. P. II., Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. Washington, 1885, p. 50. 



,5 Zur Anthropologie der Nordamerikanlschen Indlaner. Verh. Berl. Gcs. Antbrop., 

 Sitz. Mai 18, 1895 (witb Z. Ethnol. for same year). 



