CONTENTS 
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Introduction 1 
Abbreviations 3 
Descriptive characters of pure Beaver Indians 5 
Blood groups 8 
Descriptive characters of the pure Sekani, Eastern Carrier, and Western Carrier 
Indians 9 
Anthropometric characters of Beaver, Sekani, and Carrier Indians 11 
Summary 16 
Acknowledgments 17 
Frequency distribution tables 18 
Frequency distribution of: 
Stature 18 
Sitting height 19 
Index of sitting height 19 
Cephalic index , . 19 
Length of head (glabella ad maximum). 20 
Width of head (biparietal maximum) 20 
Width of face (bizygomatic maximum) 21 
Cephalo-facial index (biparietal-bizygomatic) 21 
Width of forehead (frontal minimum) 22 
Length of face (menton-erinion) 22 
Length of face (menton-nasion) 22 
Facial index 23 
Length of upper Up 23 
Height of nose 24 
Width of nose 24 
Nasal index 25 
Width of mouth 25 
Length of ear 25 
Width of ear 26 
Ear index 26 
Length of hand 26 
Width of hand 26 
Hand index 27 
Appendices 28 
Illustrations 
Plates I, II, III. Beaver Indians at St. John 39-43 
IV, V, VI. Beaver Indians at Hudson Hope 45-49 
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