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cent, in one investigation, and II per cent, in another. The 

 percentage is much higher in negroes, and very much higher (50 

 per cent.) in Maya Indians. 



FIG. 17. Tracing of the right hand of No. 571, showing a complete whorl on 

 the thenar eminence. The subject is a Liberian soldier, Jimmie Kamo, of the Bande 

 tribe. The print was taken by Prof. Frederick Starr. 



For a time this case of the Liberian soldier, which I published 

 in the American Anthropologist, 1913, p. 202, Fig. 35 was the only 

 one known, but Hasebe has recently (1918) found a second one. 

 Thus, with the unique case of my No. 788, the two patterns on the 

 thenar side of the thumb, which represent the closely associated 



