The Malamute’s head is not too heavy, but deep and wide. It looks proportional to the body. The skull is also wide, moderately rounded between the ears, with gradual flattening and narrowing towards the eyes, and also rounded into the cheekbones. The muzzle of the Malamute is large relative to the skull. Its upper line is slightly lowered and thus diverges slightly from the upper line of the skull. The groove between the eyes is weak. The transition from the forehead to the muzzle (the so-called stop) is not abrupt, but noticeable. From the stop to the nose, the muzzle decreases slightly – both in width and in-depth.