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apt to be unsafe to regard the cephalo-facial index as an entity; the 
diameters from which it is calculated must be considered as integral parts 
of it and due regard should be paid to them when the index is under con- 
sideration. The high cephalo-facial index of the Oxford House men must, 
therefore, not lead us into the error of regarding them as being of pure 
Indian stock. 
The Face and Lip. When measuring the length of the face, it is, of 
course, not sufficient to see that the mouth is closed; the teeth must be 
biting on each other. Attention was paid to this. 
It was not unusual for the hair to descend in a V-shaped peak on to 
the middle of the forehead. When it behaved in this manner, the apex 
of the peak was selected as the crinion. In this selection, the prescribed 
rule of marking the crinion as a point on the line that unites the highest 
part of the hair-line on each side of the forehead, was not followed. This 
departure, however, does not vitiate the end results of our menton-crinion 
(hair-line to chin) diameter, because this peculiarity in the hair-line is 
noted as occurring especially amongst the Gods Lake men. It, therefore, 
follows that the height of the forehead in these men is slightly under- 
stated; and there is no evidence that it differs in the different bands. Of 
the three bands of men, those at Gods lake have the longest faces (menton- 
nasion), the greatest facial index (i.e., the roundest faces), and also the 
widest foreheads. Moreover, they have longer upper lips than the Island 
Lake men. 
Between the men of Island lake and those at Oxford House the differ- 
ences in these facial proportions are of doubtful significance, though the 
Oxford House men tend, probably, to have shorter faces; and since they 
have, as has been stated above, the narrowest of the faces, it follows that 
their faces are also the smallest. 
The Nose. In height of nose there is little, if any, difference between 
the three bands of men or between the two bands of women. The Gods 
Lake men have, perhaps, slightly the highest, and the Oxford House slightly 
the shortest, noses. In width of nose, however, the Island Lake men and 
women probably exceed for their respective sexes those of the other bands. 
The nose of the Island Lake men is certainly wider than that of the Oxford 
House men. 
The Mouth. The mouths are large. The Gods Lake men and women 
have definitely the longest mouths for their respective sexes. The mouth 
tends to become longer in old age; betw^een the mouths of the Oxford House 
men, and those of the Island Lake men there is little, if any, difference. 
The Ears. Though the ears are of much the same length and of much 
the same breadth, and, therefore, of much the same index, amongst the 
three bands of men, those of the Oxford House men are, nonetheless, 
measurably the longest. With age they increase both in length and breadth, 
but more especially in length, so that the index tends to fall. The women 
have rounder ears than the men. 
The Hands. It will be seen that the hands of the three groups of men 
are almost identical in length (192 to 193 mms.) and that those of both 
groups of women are 12 to 13 mm. shorter. For their respective sex 
groups, the Island Lake men and women have the narrowest hands and 
have, therefore, also the lowest indices — ^a long, narrow hand is character- 
istic of the Indian. The Oxford House men have the broadest hands 
