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THE MONGOL-AMERICANS. 

 PLATE LXX. 



ESKIMAUX. 



Since writing the chapter on the Polar Family, (page 50,) I have been 

 favored by George Combe, Esq., with the use of four genuine Eskimaux skulls, 

 which are figured on the annexed plate. The eye at once remarks their narrow, 

 elongated form, the projecting upper jaw, the extremely flat nasal bones, the 

 expanded zygomatic arches, the broad, expanded cheek bones, and the full and 

 prominent occipital region. 



MEASUREMENTS. 





Longitud. 

 diameter. 



Parietal 

 diameter. 



Frontal 

 diameter. 



Vertical 

 diameter. 



Intermast. 

 arch. 



Intermast. 

 line. 



Occipito- 

 frontal 

 arch. 



Horizontal 

 periphery. 



Facial 

 angle. 



Internal 

 capacity. 



1. 



7.5 



5.4 



4.6 



5.4 



14.3 



4.1 



15.2 



20.4 



72° 



93. 



2. 



7.3 



5.5 



4.4 



5.3 



14.1 



4.3 



14.4 



20.3 



75° 



80. 



3. 



7.5 



5.1 



4.3 



5.5 



14.8 



3.9 



15.5 



20.3 



73° 



87.5 



4. 



6.7 



5. 



4.4 



5. 



13.6 



4- 



13.9 



18.9 



71° 





The extreme elongation of the upper jaw contracts the facial angle to a mean 

 of seventy-three degrees, while the mean of three heads of the four, gives an 

 internal capacity of eighty-seven cubic inches, a near approach to the Caucasian 

 average. The following diagrams will enable the reader to make his comparisons 

 still more in detail. 



in the open air, upon which they place the body of the deceased in a sitting attitude after the bowels 

 have been taken out:" but the interment, which is eight days later, is in the recumbent posture. — 

 Klaproth, Caucasian Nations, p. 337.— The New Hollanders sometimes bury their dead in this 

 attitude.— Breton, iV. South Wales, p. 203.— The Hottentots, says Kolbein, double up the corpse 

 "neck and heels, much in the manner of a human foetus.'' — Present State of Cape of Good Hope, 

 p. 315.— The people of the Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean, inter their dead in this position.— Marriner, 

 Tonga Islands, p. 211; and Kotzebue has also observed it at the islands of Radack and Ulea. — Voy. 

 of Discovery, III, p. 173, 211. 



