Physical Characteristics of the Copper Eskimos 



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Comparative data for the cephalic measurements are less ample than in 

 the case of the stature, but what there are may be tabulated thus: — 



HEAD LENGTH 



HEAD BREADTH 



CEPHALIC INDEX 



The correlation that seemed to exist between variation in stature and 

 European influence plainly does not hold for the cephalic measurements, a cir- 

 cumstance that Hansen has already remarked in the case of his Greenland data. 

 It is different where Indian influences have been at work. The Point Hope and 

 Noatak river natives differ from all other Eskimos and approach the neighbour- 

 ing Indians not only in stature, but also in head form, showing a marked tendency 

 towards brachycephaly.^ The greater roundness of the head here seems to be 

 due to an increase in its breadth rather than a decrease in its length. In Coro- 

 nation gulf the head is slightly longer and broader than usual, although the 



'Stone gives the cephalic indices of 7 Loucheui men as 78-9, of 17 Tahltan men as 82-5, and of 3 Tahltan 

 women as 80-3. , 



