CONTENTS

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Introduction[29]
General remarks[31]
Northwest coast—Juneau[32]
The Coast Indians[32]
Notes of archeological interest[33]
The writer's trip on the Yukon[39]
Tanana—Yukon[39]
Ancient man[41]
The Indians at Tanana[42]
Ruby[48]
Galena[51]
Nulato[53]
Kaltag[54]
The Anvik people[57]
Bonasila[60]
Holy Cross[61]
Ghost Creek[62]
Paimute[66]
Russian Mission[70]
Marshall[72]
St. Michael[84]
About Nome[88]
Aboriginal remains[89]
Nome—Bering Strait—Barrow[90]
Savonga[92]
The Diomedes[94]
The Yukon Territory—Sites, the Indians, the Eskimo[123]
The Tanana[123]
Brief historical data[123]
Population[124]
Indian sites and villages along the Tanana[125]
Lower Tanana, Nenana to Yukon[126]
The Yukon below Tanana[126]
Brief history[126]
The Yukon natives[129]
Native villages[131]
Present conditions[133]
Archeology of the Yukon[134]
The random specimens[134]
Location of villages and sites on the Yukon[136]
Pre-Russian sites[140]
Archeology of Central Alaska[144]
Ancient stone culture[144]
The pottery[146]
The Alaskan grooved stone ax[147]
Anthropology of the Yukon[150]
The living Indian[150]
Pure bloods[150]
General type[151]
Color[151]
Stature and strength[151]
Head form[151]
Body[151]
Photographs[151]
Skeletal remains of the Yukon[151]
Detailed measurements of skulls[152]
Lower middle Yukon Indian crania[153]
Skeletal parts[156]
Skeletal remains from the bank at Bonasila[156]
The crania[157]
Additional parts[159]
The Yukon Eskimo[161]
The living[161]
Measurements on living Yukon Eskimo[162]
Skeletal remains of Yukon Eskimo[162]
Skeletal parts of the Yukon Eskimo[163]
Notes on the archeology of the Western Eskimo region[165]
Old sites in the region of the Western Eskimo[168]
Present location of archeological sites[171]
Sites and villages[176]
Burial grounds[183]
Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, Alaska Peninsula[184]
Kodiak Island and neighborhood[184]
Alaska Peninsula[186]
Bristol Bay to Cape Romanzof[190]
Cape Romanzof to Northern (Apoon) Pass of the Yukon and northward[195]
St. Michael Island[195]
Norton Sound[195]
South shore of Seward Peninsula west of Bluff[196]
Scammon Bay, Norton Sound, south coast of Seward Peninsula, to Cape Rodney[198]
The northern shore of the Seward Peninsula[202]
Kotzebue Sound, its rivers and its coast northward to Kevalina[204]
Seward Peninsula, Kotzebue Sound, and northward[204]
Kevalina—Point Barrow[205]
Point Hope (Tigara)[205]
Point Hope to Point Barrow[206]
Barrow and Point Barrow[206]
The St. Lawrence and Diomede Islands[209]
St. Lawrence Island[209]
The Diomede Islands and the Asiatic coast[210]
Physical anthropology[213]
Earlier data[213]
Older anthropometric data on the western Eskimo[228]
Stature and other measurements on the living[228]
The skull[231]
Present data on the western Eskimo[238]
The living[238]
Measurements of living western Eskimo[238]
Stature[238]
Height sitting[239]
Arm span[239]
The head[239]
The forehead[240]
The face[241]
Lower facial breadth[242]
The nose[242]
The mouth[243]
The ears[243]
The chest[244]
The hand[245]
The foot[246]
Girth of the calf[246]
Physiological observations[247]
Summary of observations on the living western Eskimo[249]
Remarks[250]
Present data on the skull and other skeletal remains of the western Eskimo[254]
The skull[254]
Skull size[255]
Module and capacity[258]
Additional remarks on cranial module[258]
Skull shape[258]
Height of the skull[261]
The face[263]
The nose[267]
The orbits[270]
The upper alveolar arch[275]
The basion-nasion diameter[277]
Prognathism[282]
Skulls of Eskimo children[294]
Crania of Eskimo children[295]
Southwestern and midwestern Eskimo[295]
Principal cranial indices in children compared with those in adults[297]
The lower jaw[299]
Strength of the jaw[301]
Breadth of the rami[303]
Other dimensions[303]
The angle[305]
Résumé[306]
Mandibular hyperostoses[306]
Main references[310]
Skeletal parts other than the skull[313]
The long bones[314]
Comparative data[315]
Long bones in Eskimo and stature[316]
Length of principal long bones, and stature in the living, on the St. Lawrence Island[317]
Long bones vs. stature in Eskimo of Smith Sound[317]
A strange group of Eskimo near Point Barrow[318]
Anthropological observations and measurements on the collections[321]
Physical characteristics[323]
Origin and antiquity of the Eskimo[329]
Origin of the name "Eskimo"[329]
Opinions by former and living students[330]
Origin in Asia[330]
Origin in America[330]
Origin in Europe—Identity with Upper Palaeolithic man[331]
Other hypotheses[332]
Theories as to the origin of the Eskimo[333]
Asiatics[333]
American[340]
European[347]
Opposed to European[351]
Miscellaneous and indefinite[351]
Discussion and conclusions indicated by present data[355]
Summary[361]
Bibliography[367]
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