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Show IQOO] ESKIMO AND PACIFIC prevailing view is that the primeval home or point of dispersion was somewhere south of Hudson's Bay; and that from there a migration in three directions took place- northeast into Labrador and Greenland, north to the shores of the arctic, and northwest to Alaska and Asia. 1 \ ^ s a rule, the Eskimo are undersized, but in the west, and notably in the Mackenzie River region, they are tall, muscular, and vigorous. 1 Their faces are very broad; noses fairly prominent; hair dark, usually black, and fairly abundant on the face; eyes dark brown or sometimes blue. The skin color ranges through all shades of brown, but is usually moderately dark. The skull is very dolichocephalic in most cases, bujt not invariably. Recent careful investigations of the brain development of the Eskimo indicate that it compares very favorably with that of Europeans. 1 x- The Eskimo afford a capital example of the dependence of culture on environment. The climatic conditions deprive them of any considerable use of vegetable food or of the flesh of land animals, and\ hey are forced to seek nutrition from the sea. Not alone for food,-& ut to a great extent for clothing, 1 Rink, The Eskimo Tribes; Boas, " The Central EskimoM ( Bureau of Ethnology, Sixth Annual Report); Murdoch, in American Anthropologist, 1888, p. 129. 1 Petitot, Vocabulaire Francais- Esquimau, 1876, p. xii. * Hrdlicka, An Eskimo Brain; Spitzka, " Contributions to the Encephalic Anatomy of the Races" { Am. Jour, of Anatomy, II., 25). |