bbdliCka] SKELETAL PAfiTS 313 



Cameron, 84 1923: "In some instances the bony thickening was 

 excessive. For example, in mandible XIV H-8 the inward bulging 

 of the bone was so marked that the transverse distance between the 

 inner surfaces of the body opposite the first molars was reduced to 

 21.5 millimeters. This jaw had therefore an extraordinary appear- 

 ance when viewed from below. (See fig. 5.) The writer would 

 regard these bulgings as bone buttresses built up by nature to resist 

 the excessive strain throw r n upon the alveoli of the molar teeth. He 

 exhibited the mandibles to Prof. H. E. Friesell, dean of the dental 

 faculty. University of Pittsburgh, and this authority concurred in 

 the opinion expressed above." A disagreement with this view is 

 expressed by S. G. Ritchie, pages C4c-65c, same publication. 



SKELETAL PARTS OTHER THAN THE SKULL 



The skeletal parts of the western Eskimo, outside of the skull, are 

 but little known. The only records are those on two skeletons (one 

 male, one female) from Point Barrow by Hawkes, 33 and those on a 

 few bones from Port Clarence by Cameron. ,0 The data on the skele- 

 tal parts of the northern and eastern Eskimo are only slightly 

 richer, being for the most part fragmentary and scattered. 37 Nor 

 has the time arrived yet for a comprehensive study of such material, 

 for notwithstanding the relative abundance in crania and the more 

 resistant individual skeletal parts, the securing of anywhere near 

 complete skeletons is very difficult. Nevertheless there is now a good 

 number of the long bones of the western Eskimo in the possession 

 of the National Museum and the main data on these, all secured 

 personally by the writer, will be given. They must for the present 

 remain essentially as so many figures without adequate discussion and 

 comparisons. Nevertheless a few facts appear so plainly that they 

 may well be pointed out before concluding this section. 



nl Cameron, John, The Copper Eskimos. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. 

 1913-1918. Ottawa. 1923, xii, c. 55. 



35 Amer. Authrop., 1916, lviii, 240-243. 



M Eep. Canad. Arct. Exp., 1913-1918, Ft. C, 1923, 5G-57. 



"Mainly by Turner (London, 1886); Duckworth (Cambridge, 1904); Hrdlk'ka (New 

 York, 1910) ; Cameron (Ottawa, 1913-1918) ; also a series of incidental references and 

 comparisons. 



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