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regions by various explorers, some of which might easily pass for por- 
traits of persons of our acquaintance at Point Barrow." 
The face is broad, flat, and round, with high cheek bones and rather 
low forehead, broad across the brow and narrowing above, while the 
head is somewhat pointed toward the crown. The peculiar shape of the 
Fie. 2.—Miimfiiina, a woman of Nuwik. 
head is somewhat masked by the way of wearing the hair, and is best 
seen in the skull. The nose is short, with little or no bridge (few Eski- 
mo were able to wear our spring eye-glasses), and broad, especially 
across the ale nasz, with a peculiar rounded, somewhat bulbous tip, 
! One young man at Point Barrow looks remarkably like the well known ‘‘ Eskimo Joe,’’ as I remem- 
ber him in Boston in the winter of 1862-63, 
