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more those of the midwestern Eskimo, which suggests that an im- 

 portant proportion of them may have been derived from the latter. 

 However, even the males tend to differ. Both sexes show absolutely 

 a somewhat broader skull than that of the northerners; in both sexes 

 the skull, as seen from the cranial module, is slightly larger in the 

 Seward Peninsula series than in either of the other groups; but the 

 principal differences are seen in the face, which in the Seward 

 Peninsula group is perceptibly larger and especially higher than it 

 is in either the Igloo or the Greenland series. The orbits also in the 

 southerners are larger and the nose is slightly higher. 



On the whole it may be said that the resemblance of the Igloo 

 crania to those of Greenland is closer than that to either or both of 

 the series of Golovnin Bay and Sledge Island. This suggests the 

 possibility that a similar though not quite the same differentiation in 

 the skull may have taken place both in the Seward Peninsula and in 

 the far north ; though the possibility of a derivation of any one of 

 the three groups from any of the others can not be discarded. So 

 far as the skull is concerned a definite solution of the identity of the 

 Igloo material would have to be, it would seem, postponed to the 

 future. 



The used data on the Greenland Eskimo skulls agree closely with 

 those of Furst and Hansen (Crania Groenlandica, fol., 1915), and 

 also with the much fewer and scattered records of Virchow, Davis, 

 Duckworth, Oetteking, Pittard, etc., 40 on Eskimo skulls from 

 Labrador. 



Stature and strength. — The bones of the skeleton of the Igloo series 

 show the people to have been of good height and of above medium 

 Eskimo robustness. The principal measurements are given below, 

 together with the corresponding ones on the western and the Yukon 

 Eskimo. The material is not all that could be wished for, either in 

 numbers or representation, but it will suffice for rough comparisons. 

 Regrettably nothing for comparison is available as yet from Green- 

 land or other parts of the far northeast where we meet with long, 

 narrow, and high skulls. 



'" For more exact references see writer's Contribution to the Anthropology of Central 

 and Smith Sound Eskimo, Anthrop. Papers Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1910, V, pt. 2 ; 

 and Uie bibliography at the end of this volume. 



