In 1910, in my Contributions to the Anthropology of the Central and Smith Sound Eskimo, I was able to report both the stature and the length of the long bones in two normally developed adult males and one adult female from Smith Sound. To this it is now possible to add larger though less direct data from the group of St. Lawrence Island. We have the stature of many of the living from this place and also the measurements of numerous long bones from the dead of the same group. The relations of the two are given below, together with corresponding data from Smith Sound. There is in general such a striking agreement in the relative proportions that the latter may, it would seem, be used henceforth for stature estimates also in other parts of the Eskimo region.
FOOTNOTES:
[198] See section on Estimation of Stature from Parts of the Skeleton, in author's Anthropometry, Wistar Inst., Philadelphia, 1920.
Length of Principal Long Bones, and Stature in the Living, on the St. Lawrence Island
| Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (63) Mean stature: 163.3 | (48) Mean stature: 151.3 | |||
| Mean dimensions | Percental relation to stature (S = 100) | Mean dimensions | Percental relation to stature (S = 100) | |
| (58) | (49) | |||
| Humerus | 30.41 | 18.6 | 27.77 | 18.3 |
| (23) | (35) | |||
| Radius | 23.03 | 14.1 | 20.77 | 13.7 |
| (100) | (38) | |||
| Femur | 32.54 | 27.8 | 38.12 | 25.1 |
| (58) | (50) | |||
| Tibia | 34.16 | 20.9 | 31.13 | 20.5 |
Long Bones vs. Stature in Eskimo of Smith Sound[199]
| Male | Female | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| a | b | ||
| Stature | 155.0 | 164.0 | 146.7 |
| Humerus: | |||
| Mean length (of the two) | 28.95 | 29.0 | 26.55 |
| Percental relation to stature | 18.7 | 17.7 | 18.1 |
| Radius: | |||
| Mean length | 21.3 | 23.2 | 19.85 |
| Percental relation to stature | 13.7 | 14.1 | 13.5 |
| Femur: | |||
| Mean length | 39.1 | 42.1 | 38.55 |
| Percental relation to stature | 25.2 | 25.7 | 26.3 |
| Tibia: | |||
| Mean length | 30.25 | 34.45 | 30.9 |
| Percental relation to stature | 19.5 | 21.0 | 21.1 |
FOOTNOTES:
[199] Hrdlička, A., Contribution to the anthropology of central and Smith Sound Eskimo. Anthrop. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, pt. 2, 280. New York, 1910.