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are given. There is also given the mean and distribution of the 

 cephalic index on 114 living western Eskimo of both sexes. (On 

 chart, p. 395, the number is 141.) The mean index was 79.2. There 

 are again, as under Stature, no details as to locality, and none 

 could be obtained from the author. 



In 1901 Deniker, in his Races of Man (p. 580), reports the stature 

 of 85 Eskimo of Alaska, doubtless males, as 163 centimeters. 

 There are no details, no references, and I have not been able to trace 

 the source of the measurement. 



During the years 1897-1899 A. J. Stone made an extended jour- 

 ney along a portion of the upper Yukon and through parts of 

 northwestern Alaska and the Mackenzie River basin, for the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. On this journey he made some 

 measurements of Indian and Eskimo, and these were published in 

 1901 by Franz Boas. 7 " The Eskimo measured were the " Nunatag- 

 miut " (11 males, 5 females), of the Noatak River, Alaska, and the 

 "Koukpaginiut.'' (12 males, females), east of the mouth of the 

 Mackenzie. The Noataks, who alone interest us more closely here, 

 gave the relatively high (for Eskimo) stature of 167.9 centimeters in 

 the men and 155.6 centimeters in the women. The number of subjects 

 is small and there may possibly have been some unconscious selec- 

 tion ; yet it is clear that in this group there are numerous fairly tall 

 individuals. 



Stone's Data on the Noatak River Eskimo 



Stature 



Stretch of arms 



Height of shoulder. 



Length of arm 



Height sitting 



Width of shoulders. 

 Length of head. 

 Width of head.. 

 Width of face- - 

 Height of face 



Height of nose 



Width of nose 



Index of stretch of 



arms 



Index of arm 



Index of height 



sitting 



Index of width of 



shoulders 



Cephalic index 



Males (11) Females (5) 



5.63 

 3.76 



103. 1 



52. 6 



22. 6 



81. 6 



5.3 

 3.34 



102. 4 

 42.6 



52.4 



22 



78.8 



™ A. J. Stone's Measurements of Natives of tbe Northwestern Territories. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., 1901, xiv, pp. 53-68. 



Bull. Am. 



