Anthropological Survey in Alaska

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Author

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, PM for Bureau of American Ethnology and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Alaska -- Antiquities

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50752

Release Date

December 23, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.INTRODUCTION — General Remarks — FOOTNOTES: — Northwest Coast—Juneau — THE COAST INDIANS — NOTES OF ARCHEOLOGICAL INTEREST
6. 6.THE WRITER'S TRIP ON THE YUKON — TANANA—YUKON — ANCIENT MAN — THE INDIANS AT TANANA — Ruby — Galena — Nulato (Pl. 1, b ) — Kaltag — The Anvik People — Bonasila — Holy Cross — Ghost Creek — FOOTNOTES: — Paimute — Russian Mission — Marshall — St. Michael — About Nome — ABORIGINAL REMAINS — Nome—Bering Strait—Barrow — Savonga — The Diomedes
7. 7.THE YUKON TERRITORY—SITES, THE INDIANS, THE ESKIMO — The Tanana — BRIEF HISTORICAL DATA — POPULATION — Indian Sites and Villages Along the Tanana — FOOTNOTES: — LOWER TANANA, NENANA TO YUKON — The Yukon Below Tanana — BRIEF HISTORY — The Yukon Natives — FOOTNOTES: — Native Villages on the Yukon and in the Vicinity, 1843 (Zagoskin, III, 39-41) [23] — PRESENT CONDITIONS — Archeology of the Yukon — THE RANDOM SPECIMENS — Location of Villages and Sites on the Yukon — Pre-Russian Sites
8. 8.ARCHEOLOGY OF CENTRAL ALASKA — Ancient Stone Culture — THE POTTERY — THE ALASKAN GROOVED STONE AX [Pl. 10]
9. 9.ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE YUKON — FOOTNOTES: — The Living Indian — Skeletal Remains of the Yukon — FOOTNOTES: — Skeletal Parts — Skeletal Remains from the Bank at Bonasila — THE CRANIA — ADDITIONAL PARTS — The Yukon Eskimo — THE LIVING — MEASUREMENTS ON LIVING YUKON ESKIMO — SKELETAL REMAINS OF YUKON ESKIMO — SKELETAL PARTS OF THE YUKON ESKIMO
10. 10.NOTES ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN ESKIMO REGION — FOOTNOTES: — Old Sites in the Region of the Western Eskimo — FOOTNOTES: — Present Location of Archeological Sites — FOOTNOTES: — Sites and Villages — FOOTNOTES: — Burial Grounds — Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, Alaska Peninsula — KODIAK ISLAND AND NEIGHBORHOOD [ Fig. 17 ] — ALASKA PENINSULA [ Figs. 18, 19 ] — Bristol Bay to Cape Romanzof — Cape Romanzof to Northern (Apoon) Pass of the Yukon and Northward — FOOTNOTES: — South Shore of Seward Peninsula West of Bluff — Scammon Bay, Norton Sound, South Coast of Seward Peninsula, to Cape Rodney [ Fig. 22 ] — The Northern Shore of the Seward Peninsula — Kotzebue Sound, Its Rivers and Its Coast Northward to Kevalina — Seward Peninsula, Kotzebue Sound, and Northward — Kevalina—Point Barrow — POINT HOPE (TIGARA) — POINT HOPE TO POINT BARROW — BARROW AND POINT BARROW — The St. Lawrence and Diomede Islands — ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND — THE DIOMEDE ISLANDS AND THE ASIATIC COAST [ Figs. 27 and 28 ]
11. 11.PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY — Earlier Data — FOOTNOTES: — Older Anthropometric Data on the Western Eskimo — STATURE AND OTHER MEASUREMENTS ON THE LIVING — THE SKULL — Present Data on the Western Eskimo — THE LIVING — MEASUREMENTS OF LIVING WESTERN ESKIMO — Physiological Observations — FOOTNOTES: — Summary of Observations on the Living Western Eskimo [136] — FOOTNOTES: — Remarks — FOOTNOTES: — Present Data on the Skull and other Skeletal Remains of the Western Eskimo — THE SKULL — SKULL SIZE — MODULE AND CAPACITY — ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON CRANIAL MODULE — SKULL SHAPE — HEIGHT OF THE SKULL — THE FACE — THE NOSE — THE ORBITS — THE UPPER ALVEOLAR ARCH — THE BASION-NASION DIAMETER — PROGNATHISM
12. 12.SKULLS OF ESKIMO CHILDREN — Crania of Eskimo Children — Principal Cranial Indices in Children Compared With Those in Adults
13. 13.THE LOWER JAW — FOOTNOTES: — Strength of the Jaw — Breadth of the Rami — Other Dimensions — FOOTNOTES: — The Angle — Résumé — Mandibular Hyperostoses — FOOTNOTES: — Main References — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.SKELETAL PARTS OTHER THAN THE SKULL — FOOTNOTES: — Western Eskimo: the Long Bones — FOOTNOTES: — Western Eskimo, Long Bones: Comparative Data — Long Bones in Eskimo and Stature — FOOTNOTES: — Length of Principal Long Bones, and Stature in the Living, on the St. Lawrence Island — Long Bones vs. Stature in Eskimo of Smith Sound [199] — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.A STRANGE GROUP OF ESKIMO NEAR POINT BARROW — Anthropological Observations and Measurements on the Collections — Physical Characteristics — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ESKIMO — Origin of the Name "Eskimo" — FOOTNOTES: — Opinions By Former and Living Students — FOOTNOTES: — Theories as to the Origin of the Eskimo — ASIATICS — AMERICAN — EUROPEAN — OPPOSED TO EUROPEAN — MISCELLANEOUS AND INDEFINITE — DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS INDICATED BY PRESENT DATA
17. 17.SUMMARY
18. 18.BIBLIOGRAPHY
19. 19.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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