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The foot. — The foot of the western Eskimo, like his hand, is botli 

 absolutely and relatively to stature rather short, but it is broad, 

 giving a high breadth-length index. Its actual breadth perceptibly 

 exceeds that of the much taller old American whites, though not 

 reaching that of any of the immigrant laborers. 



Contrary to what was seen in the case of the hand, the relative 

 proportions of the Eskimo foot, as expressed by the index, are almost 

 identical with those of the southwestern and Mexican Indians. The 

 Sioux foot is relatively longer, and so is that of whites except 

 southern Italians, who, though their foot as a whole is larger, give 

 the same index as the Eskimo. 



Foot 



72 Sioux males: / 5. 40. 



Girth, of the calf. — The western Eskimo, like the American Indi- 

 ans, are characterized by a rather slender calf. The size of the 

 calf correlates in a large measure with stature. Reducing our meas- 

 urements to calf girth-stature ratios, these are seen to be much alike 

 in the three racial groups used for comparison, namely the Eskimo, 

 the Indian, and the old American white. But this is deceptive. 

 The correlation of size of calf with stature is not uniform (see " Old 

 Americans," p. 348) for all stature groups; as the scale in stature 

 descends the calf is relatively stouter. If we take white Americans 

 of approximately the same stature with the Eskimo here considered, 

 there appears a higher ratio, showing that stature for stature the 

 girth of the calf of the Eskimo is smaller, notwithstanding his gen- 

 erally more ample supply of adipose tissue. Once more his relation 



