. Tribes of the extreme Northwest . y and courtesy of Dr. Otis. I have made use of some measurements of crania, from the northernpart of Bering Sea, examined by the late lamented Jeftries Wyman, butwhich were by accidental circumstances (over which he had no control)erroneously named or taken to be what they were not. In his pamphlet 64 (Obs. OQ Crania, Boston, 18G8), five crania are described as Tsuktslii,which are all Asiatic Eskimo; and of five fiomthe Yukon River, only one(7530) is an Indian cranium, the others being Eskimo from St. Michaels,Norton Sound. I have also used the means of Dr.
. Tribes of the extreme Northwest . y and courtesy of Dr. Otis. I have made use of some measurements of crania, from the northernpart of Bering Sea, examined by the late lamented Jeftries Wyman, butwhich were by accidental circumstances (over which he had no control)erroneously named or taken to be what they were not. In his pamphlet 64 (Obs. OQ Crania, Boston, 18G8), five crania are described as Tsuktslii,which are all Asiatic Eskimo; and of five fiomthe Yukon River, only one(7530) is an Indian cranium, the others being Eskimo from St. Michaels,Norton Sound. I have also used the means of Dr. E. Besselss measure-ments of crania of Greenland Innuit, given in a paper (Einige Worte fiberdie Innuit des Smith Sundes) in the Arch. f. Anthropologic for 1875. Inthis paper of Dr. Bessels are also given measurements of some of the craniaobtained by me in the Aleutian Islands. The following tables may throw some light on the subject discussed inthe second part of this paper, while possessing a general interest for thecraniologist:.
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