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.)

Eskimo: Height-Breadth Index of the Skull
MEAN OF BOTH SEXES IN ASCENDING ORDER
Southwestern and midwestern
(12)
Togiak91.9
(6)
Pilot Station, Lower Yukon92.8
(10)
Mumtrak93.1
(5)
Chukchee93.1
(13)
Hooper Bay93.2
(25)
Nelson Island93.7
(5)
Yukon Delta94.7
(5)
Southwest Alaska95.2
(12)
Little Diomede Island96.3
(279)
St. Lawrence Island96.5
(116)
Nunivak Island96.7
(31)
Indian Point (Siberia)96.7
(29)
Pastolik96.8
(6)
Cape Nome and Port Clarence97.0
(14)
St. Michael Island98.2
Northwestern
(99)
Point Barrow98.7
(69)
Barrow98.8
(20)
Shishmaref98.9
(216)
Point Hope99.2
(3)
Kotzebue Sound and Kobuk River99.6
(33)
Wales100.3
(51)
Igloos, southwest of Barrow105.0
Northern and eastern
(7)
Hudson Bay and vicinity95.3
(16)
North Arctic97.8
(9)
Smith Sound98.3
(15)
Southampton Island99.8
(33)
Baffin Land and vicinity99.9
(101)
Greenland101.8
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.