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|Western Eskimo (St.| Old Americans
| Lawrence Island) |
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| _Males_ _Females_| _Males_ _Females_
Diameter bigonial | 11.78 11.18 | 10.63 9.84
Female vs. male | _94.9_ | _92.6_
Percentage relation to stature | _7.21_ _7.39_ | _6.09_ _6.08_
Percentage relation to breadth |_80_ _79.5_ |_76.7_ _75.8_
relation to breadth of face | |
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_The nose._--The nose of the western Eskimo promises to be of much
importance in the study of Eskimo origins in general. Nowhere in this
region is it like the nose of the northern or northeastern groups. It
is decidedly broader. Its breadth is intermediary between that of the
Alaska and other Indians and that of the northern and northeastern
Eskimo, connecting with both, and these characteristics are so
generalized throughout western Alaska and the Bering Sea islands that
they can not possibly be attributed to Indian or other admixture. Nor
can this relatively broad nose of the western Eskimo be well attributed
to environmental effects, i. e., to a broadening of a formerly narrow
nose through climatic conditions. There do not appear to be any such
conditions. The only rational explanation seems to be that this is the
more original condition of the Eskimo nose, and that the northern and
northeastern narrowness is a later derivation. More may be said on this
point when we come to consider the skeletal remains.
[Illustration: BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
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