46 H. B. Ferris, M.D. 



The hand g'rip was generally weak in both sexes, agreeing with 

 the results of the former expedition. 



The skin color is brown, being slightly lighter in the female ; 

 the hair straight and black. Cavities and gray hair were very 

 infrequent and no sex difference in these respects observed 

 Facial hair is sparse or lacking. The predominant eye color is 

 dark brown and the conjunctiva is generally yellowish in both 

 sexes but to a greater extent in the male. The inner canthus is 

 generally lower than the outer. 



The lips are medium in thickness and projection, chin medium 

 in prominence, the malars prominent, the face broad and the 

 forehead medium high but lower in the females. 



It should be understood that the nasal height measurements are 

 very certainly to some point above the nasion. possibly the 

 glabella. The straight or slightly convex nose with medium root 

 depression is preponderant in the male, while the straight or 

 concave nose with medium root depression is the prevailing type 

 in the female. The base of the nose is inclined upward in nearly 

 one-half of the males and in about seven-tenths of the females. 

 The nose is mostly mesorrhine or leptorrhine. The ear is medium 

 in size and mesotic or microtic in type. 



Both the hand and foot are smaller and more slender in the 

 female and the foot is shorter relatively to the stature. 



The Quichua are of "low stature," about the same as the 

 Eskimo, and the females are shorter than the males by 130 mm. 

 on the average. The lower extremities are relatively short, the 

 triceps sitrac muscle is large and the leg circumference-stature 

 index is greater than any recorded by Martin. 



The Quichua are mesocephalic and the cranial capacity is less 

 in the female and while all the head diameters are greater in the 

 male the head height differs least. The cephalic module averages 

 15.7 in the male and slightly less in the female, being quite similar 

 to that of some of the North American Indians of similar stature. 



While the Quichua as a whole are mesaticephalic, just escaping 

 brachycephaly, a larger proportion of the females than males are 

 brachycephalic. 



The head-height index is large in the Quichua. most of the 

 males and all of the females being hypsicephalic. The head- 

 breadth index also is large in both sexes in comparison with that 

 of many other races. The brain weight is medium or small and 

 averages 1250 grams in the male and 11 17 in the female. 



