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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA 



[ETH. ANN. JS 



Eskimo Skulls: Facial Index, Upper 

 mean of both sexes in ascending order 



Southwestern and midwestern 



(6) 



Pilot Station, Lower Yukon 53. 6 



(5) 

 Cape Nome and Port Clarence. 54. 



(10) 



Hooper Bay 54. 4 



(9) 



Mumtrak 54. 5 



(93) 



Nunivak Island 54. 6 



(262) 



St. Lawrence Island 54. 9 



(8) 

 Togiak and vicinity 55. 



(24) 

 Indian Point (Siberia) 55. 1 



(23) 



Nelson Island 55. 2 



(4) 

 Southwestern Alaska 55.4 



(10) 

 St. Michael Island 55. 5 



(25) 



Pastolik 55. 7 



(4) 

 Chukchee 55. 8 



(11) 

 Little Diomede Island 56. 



Northwestern 



(190) 

 Point Hope 52. 8 



(2) 

 Kotzebue 53. 7 



(17) 

 Shishmaref 54. 1 



(42i 

 Igloos north of Barrow 54. 1 



(41) 

 Barrow 54. 8 



(75) 

 Point Barrow 55. 2 



(31) 

 Wales 55. 4 



Northern and northeastern 



(9) 

 Smith South 51. 7 



(14) 

 Southampton Island 52. 3 



(23) 

 Baffin Land and vicinity 53. 8 



(90) 

 Greenland 54. 1 



(7) 



Hudson Bav and vicinity 54. 3 



(11) 

 Northern Arctic 56.6 



The upper facial index of the Eskimo skull is high, though there is 

 considerable group variation. The reason is the height of the upper 

 face, for which the accompanying considerable expansion of the zygo- 

 matic arches does not fully compensate. In the white groups this 

 index ranges from approximately 50 to 5!^; it averages 52 J) in 15 

 Algonquian and 53.1 in 12 Siouan tribes. The means in the large 

 Eskimo groupings are from a little below 5Jf to a little over 55. Its 

 regional differences have already been mentioned. Sex differences 

 in the index are very small. There are a number of points of signifi- 

 cant agreement, the foremost of which is once more that in the 

 case of Barrow and Point Barrow, and especially that of the Old 

 Ijjloos near Barrow and Greenland. 



