NASAL BONES

The chief feature of the nasal bones to which the student usually

directs attention is their breadth. There is on this continent a

frequency of especially narrow nasals among the Eskimo. Among the

Indians, narrow nasal bones occur only exceptionally; more commonly

they are rather broad, though the breadth is not excessive. In the

present series we find them fairly broad in all the males and in two of

the females; narrow (not excessively) in only two of the females.

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