[195] Number of femora insufficient.
Western Eskimo, Long Bones: Comparative Data
| MALES | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humerus: Index of shaft at the middle (all groups) | Radio-humeral index | Femur | Humero-femoral index | Tibia: Index of shaft at middle | Tibio-femoral index | ||
| Index of shaft at middle | Index of shaft at upper flattening | ||||||
| [196](243) | (135) | (255) | (255) | (243) | (220) | (220) | |
| Western Eskimo | 75.1 | 75 | 86.2 | 76.5 | 72 | 67.9 | 80.7 |
| (10) | (10) | (14) | (14) | (10) | (14) | (14) | |
| Yukon Indians | 70 | 75.7 | 87.1 | 70.7 | 74.5 | 66 | 81.5 |
| (448) | (370) | (902) | (902) | (378) | (1259) | (324) | |
| Other Indians | 73.3 | 77.7 | 87.3 | 74 | 72.5 | 66.1 | 84.4 |
| (1930) | (1052) | (207) | (836) | (800) | (1400) | (1216) | |
| United States whites (miscellaneous) | 83 | 73.6 | 97 | 83 | 72.5 | 71.1 | 82.1 |
| (112) | (74) | [197](14) | (48) | (50) | (63) | (68) | |
| United States negroes | 84.1 | 77.3 | (91.2) | 86.8 | 71.6 | 73.9 | 84.9 |
| FEMALES | |||||||
| (213) | (133) | (153) | (153) | (153) | (183) | (183) | |
| Western Eskimo | 74.1 | 73.1 | 90.2 | 76.5 | 71.8 | 70 | 80 |
| (348) | (200) | (327) | (248) | (200) | (910) | (384) | |
| Other Indians | 70.1 | 76.6 | 91.8 | 70 | 72.5 | 70 | 84.3 |
| (770) | (424) | (100) | (192) | (290) | (600) | (520) | |
| United States whites (miscellaneous) | 79.3 | 72.7 | 97 | 77.7 | 71.6 | 71.9 | 81.5 |
| (52) | (34) | [197](17) | (48) | (52) | (44) | (48) | |
| United States negroes | 79.2 | 77.2 | (100) | 81.1 | 70.2 | 75.9 | 83.7 |
FOOTNOTES:
[196] Bones of both sides.
[197] Numbers insufficient.
Long Bones in Eskimo and Stature
One of the most desirable of possibilities in the anthropometry of any people, but particularly in groups now extinct, is a correct estimation of their stature. For this purpose the most useful aid has been found in the long bones, and various essays have been made by Manouvrier, Rollet, Topinard, Pearson, and others[198] at preparing tables or arriving at methods that would enable the student to promptly and satisfactorily obtain the stature as it was in life from the length of the long bones. But all these essays were based on observations on white people, and it has always been recognized that they could not with equal confidence be applied to other racial groups. They would in all probability be especially inapplicable to the Eskimo with his relatively short forearms and legs; yet the possibility of estimating the stature in many localities of the Eskimo territory, where no living remain, would be of real value. Fortunately for this purpose there are now some data on hand which make this possible.