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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA 



[BTH. ANN. 40 



Ptjlse, Respiration, Temperature, and Strength 

 st. lawrence island eskimo 



males all 



FEMALES SUSPICIOUS CASES ELIMINATED 



NUNIVAK ISLAND ESKIMO 



1 Sitting, at rest, no signs of any health disorder. 



3 Sitting, at rest. 



3 Sitting, at rest, sub lingua. 



* Subjects where all three determinations were not possible 

 and the most suspicious ones (abnormally above or below the 

 mean) eliminated. 



The details of these six records were : 



In connection with the pressure tests in the two hands, some inter- 

 esting comparisons are possible between the Eskimo here dealt with 

 and the old white Americans. As all the tests were made with the 

 same instrument and method the results inspire confidence. It is in 

 details of this nature that the anthropologist finds again and again 

 the most striking proofs of the basal unity of the living races and 

 their necessarily common origin somewhere in the past. 



