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| Western Eskimo | Old American whites
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| _Male_ _Female_| _Male_ _Female_
Height, menton-nasion | 12.67 11.64 | 12.15 11.09
Females to males (M = 100) | _91.9_ | _91.3_
Diameter bizygomatic maximum | 14.88 14.30 | 13.87 12.99
Females to males (M = 100) | _96.1_ | _93.6_
Facial index, anatomic |_85.2_ _81.4_ | _87.6_ _85.4_
Facial module (or mean diameter), | |
anatomic | 13.77 12.97 | 13.01 12.04
Female to male (M = 100) | _94.2_ | _92.5_
Percentage relation of female and | |
male to stature | _8.49_ _8.50_| _7.46_ _7.44_
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The great size of the Eskimo face is especially apparent in the
relations of the mean diameter of the face to stature; it is in this
respect no less than 12 per cent in excess of that of the whites in the
males and 12.5 per cent in the females.[130]
_Lower facial breadth._--Due to the great development of the masseter
muscles and the consequent frequent lesser or greater eversion of the
angles of the lower jaw, the bigonial diameter in the Eskimo is very
large, particularly when taken in relation to stature, and in such
relation it looms especially large in the females. Compared with the
old American whites, the bigonial breadth in its relation to stature is
higher in the Eskimo males by 15.5 per cent, in the Eskimo females by
17.7 per cent. And measurements of Eskimo lower jaws in general show
that this breadth in the western contingents is not exceptional.