For ready survey the old records on western Eskimo crania are given in the following table. A sex distinction in the earlier reports was mostly impracticable or remained doubtful.

Previous Measurements of Western Eskimo Skulls
VaultNose
LengthBreadthHeightCranial indexLengthBreadthNasal indexOrbital index
1Icy Cape, ♀ (Morton, 1839)17.0212.7012.7074.6
6Asiatic Eskimo ("Tschuktchi"): mean (Daniel Wilson, 1862)17.6013.5913.7777.2
3Port Clarence (Barnard Davis, 1867)17.8613.6413.5976.4
2Kotzebue Sound, ♀ (Barnard Davis, 1867)17.4013.3513.6076.6
11Asiatic Eskimo (Wyman and Otis, 1868-1876)17.8014.1013.2079.3
6N. W. Amer. Eskimo (St. Michael Island) (Wyman and Otis, 1868-1876)17.5013.2013.1075.1
2Kodiak Island, ♂ (Quatrefages and Hamy, 1882)18.6014.2014.3076.355.92.339
1Kodiak, ♀ (Quatrefages and Hamy, 1882) 17.9013.9013.2077.655.12.345.1
(37 western Eskimo)[125] (Boas, 1895)(77)
4Kodiak Island, ♀[126] (Tarenetzky, 1900)16.8814.9313.6888.45.42.4545.489.7
4Kodiak Island,[127] (Sergi, 1900)2:77.1
2:88.1
14Point Barrow, ♂ (Hawkes, 1916)18.9113.7313.8672.655.662.3040.791.3
5Point Barrow, ♀ (Hawkes, 1916)17.8613.5813.3076.15.242.1841.688.5
5Port Clarence, ♂ (Cameron, 1923)18.6813.6313.82735.732.4041.986.9
1Port Clarence, ♀ (Cameron, 1923)17.8513.1012.8073.1
FOOTNOTES:

[105] Voyage pittoresque autour du Monde, by Louis Choris, Paris, 1822, pp. 15, 16.

[106] Wilson, Daniel, Prehistoric man. Two vols. Lond., 1862; II, pl. 15; 3d ed., 1876, II, 192, 15.

[107] Wilson, Daniel, Physical ethnology. Smithsonian Report for 1862, Washington, 1863, pp. 261-262. The measurements of the Tchuktchi are given in the Prehistoric Man, vol. II, Table 16.

[108] Observations on Crania. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI, 440-462. Boston, 1868.

[109] Topinard, P., Mesures craniometriques des Esquimaux. Rev. d'Anthrop., 1873, II, 499-522.

[110] List of the specimens in the Anatomical Section of the Army Medical Museum. Washington, 1880.

[111] Rae, John, Eskimo skulls. J. Anthrop. Inst. Gr. Brit, London, 1878, VII, 142.