Skulls From Old Burials, Point Hope; Right Skull Shows Low Vault. (U.S.N.M.)
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 60
Skulls From Old Burials, Point Hope; Right Skull Shows Low Vault. (U.S.N.M.)
| Southwestern and midwestern | |
|---|---|
| (12) | |
| Togiak | 91.9 |
| (6) | |
| Pilot Station, Lower Yukon | 92.8 |
| (10) | |
| Mumtrak | 93.1 |
| (5) | |
| Chukchee | 93.1 |
| (13) | |
| Hooper Bay | 93.2 |
| (25) | |
| Nelson Island | 93.7 |
| (5) | |
| Yukon Delta | 94.7 |
| (5) | |
| Southwest Alaska | 95.2 |
| (12) | |
| Little Diomede Island | 96.3 |
| (279) | |
| St. Lawrence Island | 96.5 |
| (116) | |
| Nunivak Island | 96.7 |
| (31) | |
| Indian Point (Siberia) | 96.7 |
| (29) | |
| Pastolik | 96.8 |
| (6) | |
| Cape Nome and Port Clarence | 97.0 |
| (14) | |
| St. Michael Island | 98.2 |
| Northwestern | |
| (99) | |
| Point Barrow | 98.7 |
| (69) | |
| Barrow | 98.8 |
| (20) | |
| Shishmaref | 98.9 |
| (216) | |
| Point Hope | 99.2 |
| (3) | |
| Kotzebue Sound and Kobuk River | 99.6 |
| (33) | |
| Wales | 100.3 |
| (51) | |
| Igloos, southwest of Barrow | 105.0 |
| Northern and eastern | |
| (7) | |
| Hudson Bay and vicinity | 95.3 |
| (16) | |
| North Arctic | 97.8 |
| (9) | |
| Smith Sound | 98.3 |
| (15) | |
| Southampton Island | 99.8 |
| (33) | |
| Baffin Land and vicinity | 99.9 |
| (101) | |
| Greenland | 101.8 |
FOOTNOTES:
[153] These subdivisions are somewhat arbitrary and may, as data accumulate and are better understood, be found to need some modification.
THE FACE
The facial dimensions of the Eskimo skull offer a number of points of unusual interest. The face is absolutely and especially relatively to stature very large in all measurements. It is particularly high between the upper alveolar point and nasion.