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T H E MON G O L -AME R I C A N S .
PLATE LXX.
ESKIMAUX.
Since writing the chapter on the Polar Family, (page 50,) I have been
favored by George Combe, Esq., with the use of four genuine Eskimaux skulls,
which are figured on the annexed plate. The eye at once remarks their narrow,
elongated form, the projecting upper jaw, the extremely flat nasal hones, the
expanded zygomatic arches, the broad, expanded cheek hones, and the full and
prominent occipital region.
MEASUREMENTS.
id«“?-diameter.
^Frontal Vertical
diameter. ' ° r r
Occipitofrontal
lorizontal Facial
angle.
Internal
capacity.
7.5 5.4 4.6 5.4 14.3 4.1 15.2 20.4 72° 93. f
2. 7.3 5.5 4.4 5.3 14.1 4.3 14.4 20.3 75° 80.
3. 7.5 5.1 4.3 5.5 14.8 3.9 15.5 20.3 73° 87.5
4. 6.7 5. 4.4 5. 13.6 4. 13.9 18.9 71°
The extreme elongation of the upper jaw contracts the facial angle to a mean
of seventy-three degrees, while the mean of three heads of the four, gives an
internal capacity of eighty-seven cubic inches, a near approach to the Caucasian
average. The following diagrams will enable the reader to make his comparisons
still more in detail.
in the open air,, upon which they place, the body of. the deceased in a sitting attitude after the bowels
have been taken out:” but the interment, which is eight days later, is in.the recumbent posture.—
Klapkoth, Caucasian Nations, p. 337.—The New Hollanders sometimes bury their dead in this
attitude.—Beetos, N. South Whies, p. 203.—The Hottentots, says Kolbein, double up the corpse
« neck and heels, much in the manner of a human foetus.”—Present State o f Cape o f Good Hope,
p. 315.—The.people of the Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean, inter their dead in this position.—Maemuke,
Tonga Islands, p. 211; and Kotzebue has also observed it at the islands of Radack and TJlea. Voy.
o f Discovery, III, p. 173,211.