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.
| Vault | Nose | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | Breadth | Height | Cranial index | Length | Breadth | Nasal index | Orbital index | ||
| 1 | Icy Cape, ♀ (Morton, 1839) | 17.02 | 12.70 | 12.70 | 74.6 | ||||
| 6 | Asiatic Eskimo ("Tschuktchi"): mean (Daniel Wilson, 1862) | 17.60 | 13.59 | 13.77 | 77.2 | ||||
| 3 | Port Clarence (Barnard Davis, 1867) | 17.86 | 13.64 | 13.59 | 76.4 | ||||
| 2 | Kotzebue Sound, ♀ (Barnard Davis, 1867) | 17.40 | 13.35 | 13.60 | 76.6 | ||||
| 11 | Asiatic Eskimo (Wyman and Otis, 1868-1876) | 17.80 | 14.10 | 13.20 | 79.3 | ||||
| 6 | N. W. Amer. Eskimo (St. Michael Island) (Wyman and Otis, 1868-1876) | 17.50 | 13.20 | 13.10 | 75.1 | ||||
| 2 | Kodiak Island, ♂ (Quatrefages and Hamy, 1882) | 18.60 | 14.20 | 14.30 | 76.35 | 5.9 | 2.3 | 39 | |
| 1 | Kodiak, ♀ (Quatrefages and Hamy, 1882) | 17.90 | 13.90 | 13.20 | 77.65 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 45.1 | |
| (37 western Eskimo)[125] (Boas, 1895) | (77) | ||||||||
| 4 | Kodiak Island, ♀[126] (Tarenetzky, 1900) | 16.88 | 14.93 | 13.68 | 88.4 | 5.4 | 2.45 | 45.4 | 89.7 |
| 4 | Kodiak Island,[127] (Sergi, 1900) | 2:77.1 2:88.1 | |||||||
| 14 | Point Barrow, ♂ (Hawkes, 1916) | 18.91 | 13.73 | 13.86 | 72.65 | 5.66 | 2.30 | 40.7 | 91.3 |
| 5 | Point Barrow, ♀ (Hawkes, 1916) | 17.86 | 13.58 | 13.30 | 76.1 | 5.24 | 2.18 | 41.6 | 88.5 |
| 5 | Port Clarence, ♂ (Cameron, 1923) | 18.68 | 13.63 | 13.82 | 73 | 5.73 | 2.40 | 41.9 | 86.9 |
| 1 | Port Clarence, ♀ (Cameron, 1923) | 17.85 | 13.10 | 12.80 | 73.1 | ||||
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.