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ANTHROPOLOGICAL, SURVEY IX ALASKA 



[ETH. ANN. 46 



Western Eskimo, Long Bones : Comparative Data 



MALES 



Western Eskimo 



Yukon Indians 



Other Indians 



United States whites i mis- 

 cellaneous) 



United States negroes 



Hu- j Tibia: 

 mero- Index of 

 femoral shaft at 

 index middle 



(243) 

 72 



(10) 

 74. 5 

 (378) 

 72. 5 

 (800) 

 72.5 



(50) 

 71.6 



(220) 



67.9 

 (14) 



66 

 (1259) 



66. 1 

 (1400) 



71. 1 

 (63) 



73.9 



Tibio- 

 femoral 



index 



(220) 



80.7 



(14) 



81.5 



(324) 



84 4 



(1216) 



82. 1 



(68) 

 84 9 



FKMALES 



Western Eskimo 



Other Indians 



United States whites (mis 

 oellaneous) 



United States negroes 



(183) 

 SO 



(384) 

 S4. 3 

 (520) 

 81.5 

 (48) 

 83.7 



' Bones of both sides. 



* Numbers insufficient. 



niation of their stature. For this purpose the most useful aid has been 

 found in the long bones, and various essays have been made b_y Manou- 

 vrier, Rollet, Topinard, Pearson, and others 38 at preparing tables 

 or arriving at methods that would enable the student to promptly 

 and satisfactorily obtain the stature as it was in life from the length 

 of the long bones. But all these .essays were based on observations 

 on white people, and it has always been recognized that they could 

 not with equal confidence be applied to other racial groups. They 

 would in all probability be especially inapplicable to the Eskimo 

 with his relatively short forearms and legs; yet the possibility of 

 estimating the stature in many localities of the Eskimo territory, 

 where no living remain, would be of real value. Fortunately for this 

 purpose there are now some data on hand which make this possible. 



38 See section on Estimation of Stature from Parts of the Skeleton, in author's An- 

 thropometry, Wistar Inst., Philadelphia, 1920. 



