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has been said. In about the half part of the cases is noted: 

 Prominent, straight, well-formed or nearly straight, rather well- 

 formed or the like. In about Vs is found noted: Great, curved, 

 slightly hunched or beautifully formed, slightly curved and in 

 the rest broad, flat or retrousé. But there are all forms of 

 transition from pronounced Mongolian nose to pronounced 

 Indian nose. 



That which characterizes the eyes of the East-Greenlanders 

 the most is their Mongolian shape produced by the forming of 

 the so-called Mongolian fold — the fold of the skin imme- 

 diately over the upper eyelid prolonging itself and covering the 

 inner angle of the eye. Thus Søren Hansen describes the 

 Mongolian fold of the West-Greenlanders in whom it is often 

 found, though less developed than in the Mongols. Being very 

 general in the East-Greenlanders it was only missed in hardly 

 10°/o of the observed and was often very strongly developped. 

 But the palpebral fissure itself is nearly always horizontal. Its 

 presence suggests kinship with the Mongols and its more rare 

 appearance in the West-Greenlanders is probably a consequence 

 of the crossing. The colour of the iris of the eye is brown in 

 different shades, most frequently dark-brown. I have not seen 

 a single East-Greenlander with blue eyes, and if it appears on 

 the whole it is certainly a very uncommon thing. 



The hair is black or dark-brown , always straight. The 

 growth of the beard is scarce as the hairiness on the whole. 

 Yet the hairiness of pubes is often rather well developped. 

 The colour of the skin on the covered parts is light tawny or 

 light olive. On the lumbar region darker, often with a rather 

 strongly bluish tint that seems to be strongest in young indi- 

 viduals, perhaps being a rest of the blue spot found on the 

 cross of infants. This much mentioned spot was present in 

 the few infants I saw. As to its importance I refer to Søren 

 Hansen. The uncovered skin is tawny or reddish brown. The 

 skin of genitalia pronounced bluishly pigmented. 



