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differ from each other in length of lower limb, hence the difference in their
stature and sitting height index. In breadth of forehead, in chin to hair-
line diameter, in length of upper lip, and in the proportions of the ear they
do not significantly differ from each other; but in width of mouth and
in length and breadth of hand there are certainly differences between the
two tribes. The Chipewyan men have the larger mouths; the Beaver
men have the smaller hands.

As regards the adult females, aged twenty to fifty-nine years, they are
dealt with in the same manner in Table XIV. Jenness measured thirty-
one Sekani and Carrier women, and the author measured eleven Beaver.
It is evident that the number of Beaver women is too small to deserve
much attention. For example, their mean cephalic index is slightly
lower than that of the males, which is too contrary to precedent to allow
of its being accepted unchallenged on the slender evidence of eleven
individuals.

When the Sekani and Carrier women are compared with the Chipewyan
women (section E) it will be seen from the fourth column that they differ
from each other in much the same respects as do the men of these two
tribes, that is, in stature the Chipewyan women are the shorter (Diff. /P.E.
diff. 8-9), they have a lower cephalic index, and perhaps a shorter and
narrower head; there is no significant difference in the width of the face
nor is there in the proportions of the nose; a reference, however, to the
tables conveys much more than can words.

SUMMARY

This report deals with the descriptive characters, measurements,
and blood groupings of certain tribes of pure Canadian Indians of Déné
or Northern Athapascan stock. These tribes are the Beaver Indians of
Peace river; and the Sekani, and Eastern and Western Carrier Indians
of Fraser river. The number of adults examined were sixty-four males
and forty-two females, in all one hundred and six adult persons. In addition
to these a number of old people and children were measured. When to
these are added the adult Chipewyan Indians examined in 1928 the number
of pure, or assumedly pure, Déné Indians is brought up to one hundred
and seventy-one, of whom one hundred and eight are men, and sixty-
three women.

Of descriptive characters the hair, nose, eye, lips, teeth, digital
formula, and blood groups are remarked on: of the sixteen measurements
taken twelve are related to the head; the remaining four are stature,
sitting height, and length and breadth of hand. The intertribal differ-
ences between these Indians are for the most part not great. Notable are
the high percentage of eyes of lighter shades among the Carrier and Sekani
Indians; and the high percentage of group A blood among the Beaver Indians.

These people are short in stature, broad headed, with very high
cephalo-facial index, ranging by tribes from 96-2 to 98-4 for the men
and from 95-5 to 96-4for the women. These and the other facts related to
their measurements are set out clearly in Tables XIII and XIV. For
purposes of comparison the measurements of the thirty-six Chilcotin
men and twenty-two Chilcotin women, a tribe allied to the Carrier Indians
measured by Boas and Farrand in 1897, are considered. They are seen

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