A special effort in our work has been made to secure well-preserved
skulls of children. As elsewhere, so among the Eskimo, more children
die than adults, but conditions are not favorable for the preservation
of their skeletal remains. Most of the bones are done away with or
damaged by animals (foxes, dogs, mice, etc.), while others decay, so
that generally nothing remains of the youngest subjects and but a few
bones and a rare skull of the older children. The total number of such
skulls in our collection now reaches 25. They are all of children
of more than 2 but mostly less than 6 years old, and are all normal
specimens. The principal measurements of their vault--a study of the
face is a subject apart and needing more material--are given in the
following tables.