---------------------+--------------+--------------+---------------
| (128) | (128) | (128)
St. Lawrence Island | 3.62 3.60 | 3.92 3.89 | _91.7_ _92.6_
| (58) | (58) | (58)
Nunivak Island | 3.50 3.52 | 3.88 3.84 | _90.2_ _91.6_
| (70) | (70) | (70)
Point Hope | 3.54 3.54 | 3.91 3.88 | _90.5_ _91.4_
| (45) | (45) | (45)
Greenland | 3.55 3.56 | 3.86 3.83 | _91.9_ _92.9_
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The general orbital index of the Eskimo is close to _90_ in the males,
_90.5_ in the females. Such orbits are classed as also _relatively_
high or _megaseme_, a character in which they resemble many of the
American Indians. Thus the male crania of the Siouan tribes give the
practically identical general index of _90.5_.
The slightly higher index in the females is the rule to which there are
but few exceptions, and those in individual groups where the numbers
of specimens may not be sufficient. The same tendency is observable in
the Indians, and appears in fact to be panhuman. It is due to slightly
lesser relative height as compared to the breadth of the orbit in
the males, which condition is due in all probability to the greater
development in the males of the frontal sinuses and supraorbital arches.
ESKIMO CRANIA: DIMENSIONS OF THE ORBITS IN RELATION TO THOSE OF THE
FACE