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Remarks 



The most noteworthy and important result of these studies on 

 the living western Eskimo is the evidence, coming to light again 

 and again, of their fundamental somatic relations to the Indian. 

 These relations are too numerous and weighty to be accidental. Nor 

 can they be ascribed to mixture with the Indian in such far-away 

 groups as the St. Lawrence Islanders, who so long as known have 

 never had any direct or even indirect contact with Indians. These 

 relations in dimensions and relative proportions of the body, and 

 in physiological characteristics such as the slow normal pulse, are 

 supplemented by many phases of behavior, and often by a more or 

 less Indianlike physiognomy. They inevitably lead to the con- 

 clusion that the Eskimo and the Indian are in the root members of 

 the same family. They are two digits of the same hand, separate 

 and diverging, yet at base joined to and derived from the same 

 source. And this source, according to many indications, is the 

 paleoasiatic, '"mongoloid," stem of northern Asia. The western 

 Eskimo shows to be nearer this source than his more northern and 

 northeastern relatives, indicating either that he is a later comer, or, 

 which is more probable, that he has changed less in the south than 

 in the north. It may be possible to say something more on this 

 subject after the skeletal remains have been considered. 



