FOOTNOTES:
[132] Sitting, at rest, no signs of any health disorder.
[133] Sitting, at rest.
[134] Sitting, at rest, sub lingua.
[135] Subjects where all three determinations were not possible and the most suspicious ones (abnormally above or below the mean) eliminated.
Summary of Observations on the Living Western Eskimo[136]
These Eskimo are generally of submedium stature, occasionally reaching medium. The distal parts of their extremities are relatively short. Walk in adult males somewhat awkward.
In head form they are highly mesocephalic to moderately brachycephalic; the height of the head averages about medium. The head is of good size, especially when taken in relation to stature. The forehead is above medium in both height and breadth.
The face is large in all dimensions, generally full and rather flat. In men it not seldom approaches a square form. The lower jaw region is largely developed, the angles of the lower jaw are broad to protruding.
The nose is of fair breadth, with bridge somewhat narrow above and on the whole only moderately high. The mouth is large, lips medium to somewhat above. The ears are long. Beard spare on sides of face, mostly sparse on chin; mustache sparse and often limited to tufts above the corners of the mouth. Expression generally good-natured, smiling.
The chest is large, in females broad, in males especially deep. There is but a mild lumbar curve and no steatopygy. The lower limbs in females are less stout and shapely than they are in whites. The hands and feet are small, but, particularly the foot, relatively broad.
Temperature and respiration approach those in normal whites, though they appear frequently to be slightly higher; pulse normally is slow.
Dynamometric tests of strength (pressure, both hands) give somewhat lower records than in whites.