Height and weight in Eskimo children

✍ Scribed by Aleš Hrdlička

• Book ID: 101456971
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1941
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 409 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330280307

✦ Synopsis

The extensive and difficult of approach region of the lower Kuskokwim, the Johnson's Creek and the alluvial flats between the bight of the Kuskokwim and the upper outlets of the Yukon delta, is occupied by the largest and in general the best preserved group of the western Eskimo, numbering collectively over 4000 individuals. The official and cultural center of this region is Bethel, the seat of a Moravian Mission, a few traders, a marshall, a postmaster, a nurse (with lately also a nice small hospital and a doctor), and a territorial as well as a government native school, the latter attended in season by a good number of the Eskimo children of all ages. At this native school, since 1928, the teacher measured yearly, * See writer's "Puberty in Eskimo Girls" Proc. Nat. Ae. Sci.,