294 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA [BTH. ANN. 46 



SKULLS OF ESKIMO CHILDREN 



A special effort in our work has been made to secure well-pre- 

 served skulls of children. As elsewhere, so among the Eskimo, more 

 children die than adults, but conditions are not favorable for the 

 preservation of their skeletal remains. Most of the bones are done 

 away with or damaged by animals (foxes, dogs, mice, etc.), while 

 others decay, so that generally nothing remains of the youngest 

 subjects and but a few bones and a rare skull of the older children. 

 The total number of such skulls in our collection now reaches 25. 

 They are all of children of more than 2 but mostly less than 6 years 

 old, and are all normal specimens. The principal measurements of 

 their vault — a study of the face is a subject apart and needing more 

 material — are given in the following tables. 



