KKroUT I’l'OX PHYSICAL CHAPACTKliS OF NiLOTIC NKtJKOIl) TKIliES 
l-'urs 
Furawis 
Gebelawis 
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TABLE 1.— EERTiT TKIB.E (AT BARBOI) 
Head and Face Measukements — 
(Tlaiiello-occipital Icugtli 
197 
190 
191 
187 
100 
100 
190 
190 
‘20'2 
I Aver- 
' age 
^laxiinuni breadth 
l.oO 
144 
138 
141 
140 
14-J 
142 
142 
150 
— 
— 
f'lphnHc hidex 
70-1 
7.J-J 
75-If 
7d- 7 
7./-3 
74-7 
74-3 
— 
7d-S 
Auriculo-vertical height... 
14-1 
1.3.0 
130 
130 
131 
133 
133 
134 
145 
— 
— 
Vcriicul Indc.r 
7.7./ 
GS-0 
OS-1 
00-5 
OS-0 
07-0 
07-0 
70-5 
71-S 
— 
00-5 
Total faee length 
112 
120 
111) 
112 
118 
118 
114 
120 
124 
— 
1 — 
Max. iiiterzygoinatic breadth 
144 
142 
132 
140 
141 
137 
137 
132 
142 
— 
— 
Fdciid Indc^ 
SO 
S4 
SS 
SO 
,S‘J 
SO 
SO 
00 
S7 
— 
■S4 
Span of arms 
1800 
1730 
17.00 
1770 
1.800 
1770 
1800 
1700 
1800 
1800 
1708-.7 
Height 
1770 
1700 
l(i90 
1720 
1000 
1730 
1740 
10.70 
1740 
— 
1718 
1 
r U K S 
The Furs, inhahiting the region of Dai'fur, on the Western side of tlie Nile, constitute 
a large and important Sudanese tribe. F’ifteen individuals were measured at Renk. 
In stature they are considerably smaller than the Dinkas — 16S'3 cm., as against 
ISO'2 cm.—but in other respects they resemble them closely. 
They show distinct dolichocephaly of the head, a similar degree of prognathism, 
and nasal characters which are alike. 
The lower limb -leg and thigh—measure rather less than one half of the total 
stature, and therefore are slightly shorter relatively than in the Dinkas. 
r K A w I s 
iMeasurenients of four individuals of this tribe were made at Melut, at Renk, and at 
Khartoum, and the condition of the hair is noted as being nil, or short, crisp and curly. In 
stature they are not very tall, the average being 171-7 cm., and the low'er limb measures, 
on an average, 89-5 cm. In regard to the head the average length was 199 mm., and 
the cephalic index was 75, varying from 70 to 77, while the vertical index was (;7-2, the 
alveolar was 107, and the nasal index, on the average, 102, indicating a very wide nose, 
hut, at the same time, the nasal depth is considerable, 20 mm., which is larger than the 
average obtained from any other tribe. Summing up their physical characteristics we find 
them to be of medimn height, with long legs and a trunk which is wide at the shoulders, 
with a broad but fairly prominent nose, a wdde face, and a head tending to be rather 
round than long. 
G E n E L A w I s 
Altogether nineteen individuals of this tribe were measured, ten of them at Barboi and 
nine at Renk and Melut. The principal measurements show great similarity among the 
individuals measured at these two centres. For instance, the stature iji one case is, on 
the average, 172 cm., in the other, 169, the span 178 and 177, the head length 192 and 190, 
and the cephalic index, on the average, 76-3 in both cases, the vertical index 68 and 72-1. The 
only diameters which show variations are the length and width of the face, which in one 
ease gave an index of 89, and in the other of 79. The hair was nil, or short, thick, and 
curly, and the teeth were usually complete and perfect. Summarising the physical cha¬ 
racters, w'e find them to be a tribe of medium height, considerably shorter than the Dinkas 
or even the lluruns, with head index which tends to Ije mesocephalic, again contrasting 
with the Dinkas, and contrasting also with the Nuers, and with a trunk whicli is rather long. 
