286 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITLTE. 



is very frequent amongst the Eskimo. Samuel Lain^; ' compares the 

 skulls of the early stone perio I in Scandinavia with those of the 

 Eskimo, and Richard Owen,'- speaking of crania from the Shetland 

 Islands obi^erves that they "combine Teutonic features with the 

 roof-shaped calvarium " and supra-nasal depression of the Eskimo." 

 H. G. M. Murray Aynsley thinks that '• the race that lived in the 

 Stone-age is represented now by the Finns, the Lapps and the 

 Eskimo," and compares theui in regard to colour, eyes, phy.sical 

 appearance, etc., with the aboi'igines of the Spiti valley in the 

 Himalayas.* Broca ^ remarks the resemVjlance of the dolichocephalism 

 of the race jf Canstadt to that of the Eskimo. The correspondence 

 of the weapons of the men of the River-drift to those at present in 

 use among.st the Eskimo has been shown by Professor Dawkins,'' who 

 has also noted the peculiar aptitude for carving or scratch-ng ilraw- 

 ings on bone, which the relics of the Cave-men show th^m to have 

 posse.s.sed, and with which the Eskimo are gifted to a remarkable 

 degree. It seems to me therefore that there is nothing absolutely 

 conclusive against Prof. Dawkins' iheoiy, which enables us to solve 

 many pioblems otherwise inexi)licable. 



Tiie exact relation which exists between the Eskimo race and the 

 various other aVjorigiual stocks of the American continent, has not 

 yet been .satisfactorily determined. That the Eskimo and some of 

 the Indian races of North America, have been brought into contact 

 in the remote past, I have, I think reasonably shown ; whether they 

 have sprung from the same original stock, remains an open question. 

 The measurements of Eskimo skulls Vjear a remarkable resemVjlance 

 to those of ])rehi.storic Crania from California and Brazil. The series 

 of crania from Sta. Barbara Island* and the vicinity, as seen from the 

 following table,^ approach in some respects, Eskimo skulls very 

 closely : — 



1. Journal Anthrop. SrX'., ISCi. p. 21. 



2. lb. p. 54. 



3. Asiatic Syniljolisin, Indian Antiquary, Bombay, March 1886, p. 61. 



4. lb. p. 63. 



.5. Disc, de .M. Broca. Pr>-9. de 1'As.s. franf;. p. I'Av. d. 1. Sci., Havre 1877. 



♦J. Loc. cit. 



7. Peabody Mus., Kep. ii., 1876-9, p. MS. 



