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large occurrence of whorls on the third toe is unexpected, but may 

 be accounted for by the prominence of that digit in ordinary 

 walking, and its extreme projection in the average foot. 



FlG. 1 8. Apical pattern of the right great toe of a European-American. 



Typical whorls do occasionally occur in the apical pattern of 

 the great toe (Fig. 18), but a loop, usually fibular, is much 

 commoner. 



Unlike the hand, the foot, owing to the greater equality in its 

 digits, and especially to the evenness of the intervals between 

 them, disposes of its four interdigital patterns in a straight row 

 across the sole, occupying the mounded region commonly spoken 

 of as the "ball." Remembering that the first interdigital pattern 

 is here in line with the others, and is neither dropped out of place, 



FIG. 19. First interdigital (hallucal) of right foot of a Japanese girl, a student 

 at the Doshisha school in Kyoto, showing the concentric whorl of a primitive 

 pattern. The outer triradius was not printed but its position is indicated by the 

 convergence of the ridges. It would doubtless have been printed if the foot had 

 been rolled a little. 



nor approximated to the thenar, as in the hand, there is occasion- 

 ally a sole in which all four interdigital patterns appear as either 

 loops or whorls, but in a number of cases, perhaps the majority, 

 the interdigital areas except the first are not marked by patterns, 



