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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 

 Cephalic Index ' 



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Place 



Mackenzie Delta (Stone) 



Mackenzie Delta (Jenness) 



Southeast Greenland (Hansen).. 

 Labrador (Duckworth and Pain) 

 Hudson Bay (Tocher and Boas!. 



Coronation Gulf (Jenness) 



Northeast Greenland (Hansen). 



Smith Sound (Steensby) 



Southwest Greenland (Hansen).. 



Point Hope (Jenness) 



Noatak River (Stone) 



Men 



Cases Index 



12 

 4 

 22 

 11 

 35 

 82 

 31 

 8 

 21 

 13 

 11 



73.9 

 76. 1 

 75.7 

 77.0 

 77.2 

 77.6 

 77.8 

 78.0 

 78. 1 

 = 78.3 

 81.6 



Cases Indei 



6 

 23 

 10 



42 

 15 

 10 



24 



75.2 

 75.0 

 74.5 



76.6 

 76.5 



77.4 

 76. 8 



78.8 



1 Physical Characteristics of the Copper Eskimo. Rep. Canad. Arct. Exped., 1913-191S, Ottawa, 1923 

 p. B55. 

 ! The totals of the measurements give 78.1— A. n. 



THE SKULL, 



The first western Eskimo skull collected for scientific purposes 

 was apparently that of a female St. Lawrence Islander. It was 

 taken from the rocks of the island by the Kotzebue party in 1817. 

 It was reported upon phrenologieally in 1822 by Gall. 78 



In 1839 Morton, in his "Crania Americana" (p. 248), gives 

 measurements and the illustration of a western Eskimo skull from 

 Icy Cape, collected by Dr. A. Collie, surgeon of H. M. S. Blossom. 

 The principal measurements of this evidently female skull were: 

 Length, 17.02 centimeters; breadth, 12.70; height, 12.70. Cephalic 

 index, 74.6. 



In 1862 79 and 1863 s " Daniel Wilson reports briefly on six 

 Tchuktchi skulls, which were probably those of Asiatic Eskimo. He 

 says: 



My opportunities for examining Esquimaux crania have been sufficient to 

 furnish me with very satisfactory data for forming an opinion on the true 

 Arctic skull form. In addition to the measurements of 38 skulls. * * * 

 I have recently compared and carefully measured six Tchuktchi [probably 

 Asiatic coast Eskimo] skulls, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 exhumed from the burial place of a village called Tergnyune, on the island of 

 Arikamcheche, at Glassnappe Harbor, west of Bering Strait, and during a 



78 Voyage pittorcsque autour da Monde, by Louis Cborls, I'aris. 1S22, pp. 15. 16. 



-'Wilson, Daniel, Prehistoric man. Two vols. Lond., 1862; ii, pi. 15; 3d ed., 1876. 

 it, 192, 15. 



» Wilson, Daniel, Physical ethnology. Smithsonian Report for 1862, Washington, 1863. 

 pp. 261-262. The measurements of the Tchuktchi are given in the Prehistoric Han, 

 VOL II, Tubl- 16. 



