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of dress that covers the sexual organs and is applied by the 

 young East-Greenlanders when they, he or she , think them- 

 selves and are thought by their cognates to be full-grown. 

 Søren Hansen found for 31 men and 15 women the average 

 size to be 1647 and 1551 (max.: 1760 and 1650, min.: 1540 

 and 1450), thus 23 and 60™°^ more. If the average size is cal- 

 culated according to all measurements in hand from Angmagsalik, 

 the result is seen lo be about 163Ч and about 152 cm. The 

 average size of grown-up West-Greenlanders calculated on a 

 very great number of individuals from the whole of the West- 

 coast is stated to be 162 and 152 cm.M. After this there 

 seems to be no reason to insist on the theory of the East- 

 Greenlaoders being taller than the West-Greenlanders, provided 

 that the collected number of individuals from Angmagsalik is 

 thought sufficiently great, what it likely must, when it is taken 

 into consideration how considerable a fraction it forms of the 

 whole population. 



In the treatise of Søren Hansen on the anthropology of 

 the West-Greenlanders, he also remarks that the difference of 

 size found according to the measurings then in hand, is so 

 small, that it is doubtful if any importance maybe ascribed toit. 



As substantiated by Søren Hansen, it also appears from my 

 measurements that the size of the East-Greenlanders is some- 

 what, but not much smaller than the established size of the 

 European nations (1650°™), and that they, as little as the 

 Greenlanders altogether, can be stated to be very small people. 



As to the proportions of the body Søren Hansen writes 

 the following according to the examinations of Holm and Garde: 

 '•The arms strong and muscular; the length between the out- 

 stretched hands nearly the same, most frequently a little smaller 

 than the size of the body; but the chest being very much 



') .'^вren Hansen: Birlra!.' til Vestgrønlænderncs Anthropologi. Meddelelser 

 om Grenland, VII. Bd Ре. 163— 2,50. Kbhvn. 1893. 



