Physical Characteristics of the Copper Eskimos 

 UPPER FACE LENGTH— CORONATION GULF 



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The three Mackenzie delta Eskimos whoni I measured gave a mean of 73-3 

 and the three Point Hope men of 74-7. Duckworth and Pain give 73-15 as 

 the mean of 11 Labrador men and 69-35 as the mean of 10 women. There are 

 no figures available from other regions, but cranial measurements, which should 

 differ very little from measurements on the living, range in males from 72 in 

 Labrador to 77 at Southampton island, and in females from 68 at Point Barrow 

 to 74-4 at Herschel island.^ The variation within each group is considerable, 

 and none of these averages is based on a large number of cases, so that for the 

 present at least no weight can be attached to these differences. The Copper 

 Eskimos seem to lie midway between the two extremes. 



FACE BREADTH— CORONATION GULF 



'Duckworth and Pain, J.R.A.I., Vol. XXX, 1900, p. 136; Hrdlicka, op. dt., p. 190; Hawkes, op. cit., 

 p. 227; Russell, op. cit., p. 200. 



