36 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
and large nostrils. The eyes are horizontal,! with rather full lids, and 
are but slightly sunken below the level of the face. 
The mouth is large and the lips full, especially the under one. The 
teeth are naturally large, and in youth are white and generally regular, 
but by middle age they are generally worn down to flat-crowned stumps, 
as is usual among the Eskimo. The color of the skin is a light yellowish 
Fig. 3.—Akabiana, a youth of Utkiavwin. 
brown, with often considerable ruddy color on the cheeks and lips. 
There appears to be much natural variation in the complexion, some 
women being nearly as fair as Europeans, while other individuals seem 
to have naturally a coppery color.2. In most cases the complexion ap- 
pears darker than it really is from the effects of exposure to the weather. 
All sunburn very easily, especially in the spring when there is a strong 
reflection from the snow. 
! The expression of obliquity in the eyes, mentioned by Dr. Simpson (op. cit., p. 239), seems to me to 
have artsen from the shape of the cheek bones. I may be mistaken, however, as no careful compari- 
sons were made on the spot. 
2 Frobisher says of the people of Baffin Land: ‘ Their colour is not much unlike the sunburnt countrie 
man.'' Hakluyt’s Voyages, etc. (1589), p. 627. 
