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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA 



[ETH. ANN. 40 



In 1879 Lucien Carr, in his " Observations on the Crania from the 

 Santa Barbara Islands, California" 86 (p. 281), gives erroneously 

 Otis's measurements of Aleut skulls as those of " Alaskan Eskimo." 



Meanwhile W. H. Dall has published (1877) his monograph on 

 the " Tribes of the Extreme Northwest," 86 in which he includes 

 Wyman's and also some of Otis's data on the Eskimo (and Aleut) 

 skulls from Alaska and Asia. The Tshuktshi are now classed as 

 Asiatic Eskimo, the Mahlemuts as Eskimo from St. Michael Island. 

 The total number of skulls described in the former series is 11, in 

 the latter series 6 (of Aleuts the number of skulls measured is 27 

 adults and 7 children). The means of the principal measurements 

 of the Eskimo series, both sexes together, are as follows : 



Jeffries Wyman's and Otis's Measurements of Western Eskimo Crania 



There were also taken the weight, capacity, circumference, longi- 

 tudinal arch, length of the frontal, parietal, and occipital, "zygo- 

 matic diameter," and in two specimens of each series the facial 

 angle. To-day these data have but a historical value. 



In 1882, Quatrefages and Hamy, 87 in their " Crania ethnica " 

 (p. 440) give the measurements of two male Kaniagmiouts (Kodiak 

 Indian, A. Pinart, collector) and one female Mahlemiout. The prin- 

 cipal measurements of these skulls are as follows : 



SkuU: 



Length 



Breadth 



Height (has. 

 bg.) 



Cranial index 



Males (2) 



18.6 

 14. 2 



14.3 

 76. 34 



Female (1) 



17. 9 

 13.9 



13.2 



77. 65 



Nose: 



Length 



Breadth 



Nasal index 



Facial index, total 

 Orbital index 



Males (2) Female (1) 



5.9 



2.3 



SS. 98 



77.69 



92.68 



5. 1 



2.3 



45.09 



70.37 



90.24 



In 1883 Dr. Irving C. Rosse, in his " Medical and Anthropological 

 Notes on Alaska," 88 refers to his examination of a number of Eskimo 



"SRep. U. S. Geogr. Surv. W. of 100 Meriil.. vol. vn. 



68 U. S. Geog. and Geol. Surv. Rocky Mt. Reg. Contributions to North American Eth- 

 nology, I. Washington, 1877. p. 63 et scq. 



87 Quatrefages, A. de, and Hamy, E. T., Crania ethnica. Paris, 1882, 438. 440. 



88 Cruise of the Oorwin in 1881. Washington, 1883, p. 38. 



