Abstract
IN the course of the Rawson-MaeMillan Subarctic Expedition of the Field Museum (1927-28), Dr. W. Duncan Strong secured a large series of measurements and observations of living Labrador Eskimo and a small group of Montagnais-Naskapi Indians. When obvious mixed bloods and sub-adults are eliminated, the numbers were 137 Eskimo (58 males, 79 females) and 18 Indians (11 males, 7 females). Labrador Eskimo skeletons were also obtained, including thirty-two measurable skulls (17 males, 15 females), many with associated skeletal parts. Measurements made by Shapiro, Boas, Pittard, Duckworth and others have been added in this study. An unusual series is thus made available, comprising (1) an old stone grave series, pre-white, and earlier than 1770; (2) a mid-nineteenth century grave series (early Mission period); and (3) recent living (1880-1928).
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Eskimo of Labrador. Nature 145, 678–679 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145678a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145678a0