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llEPORT UPON PHYSICAL CHAKACTEKS OF NILOTIC NECIHOID TIUKES 
Nubas 
Bongos 
The nasal chai'acters are not distinctive, and the facial index indicates a similarity of 
proportion to that found in several other tribes, and which shows that, in certain regions, 
the face inclines to be long and narrow, rather than broad. 
TABLE II.—GEBELAWI TKIBE, AT BARBOI 
C41abello-occipital length 
1!H 
180 
190 
196 
180 
195 
190 
190 
192 
192 
Aver¬ 
age 
190 
Maximum bi-eadth 
143 
140 
145 
154 
150 
157 
153 
154 
158 
1.50 
145 
Ccphnlic Index ... 
73-7 
77-8 
7G-3 
7S‘ G 
So'3 
80-5 
80-5 
Shi 
83-3 
7 IS 
7G-3 
Auriculo-vertical height . 
140 
134 
140 
137 
137 
141 
127 
139 
1-33 
141 
137 
J"crfic(fl Index 
73-3 
74-4 
73-7 
G!)-9 
7G-I 
73-3 
GG-S 
73-3 
GO-3 
7.74 
73-1 
Total face length . 
1-21 
110 
104 
120 
102 
115 
102 
117 
108 
111 
— 
Max. iuterzygomatic breadth .. 
140 
142 
137 
141 
130 
151 
144 
142 
140 
140 
— 
Facial Index 
SG 
77 
76’ 
<S’^ 
78 
7G 
70 
S3 
78 
79 
7.9 
Span of arms 
1770 
1760 
1790 
1880 
1600 
I860 
1700 
1800 
1750 
1870 
1778 
Stature 
1750 
1710 
1710 
1800 
1590 
1710 
1680 
1791.) 
1670 
17.50 
1694 
N UBAS 
Thirteen individuals were measured, and all the measurements were obtained at Eenk. 
The hair is short, crisp and frizzy, or curly, and, in some eases, nil. In stature the average 
is only 169-4 cm., resembling in this respect the Bongos and the Furs. The thigh and leg 
together measured 84 cm., or almost exactly one half of the total height, while the arm and 
forearm measured 62 cm. The cephalic index is, on the average, practically 76, and they 
show a general tendency to mesocephaly, while the vertical index was almost 70, and the 
skull, therefore, possesses considerable height. The alveolar index was 108, and the nasal 
index 100 — that is, the width of the nose is, on the average, the same as the length. The 
forehead is, on the whole, retreating, and the head almost comes to a peak above the 
lambdoidal region. The photographs (Figs. 155, 156, 159, 160, 161, and 162) show- the 
characters of the head and face, both in front view and profile. 
The face is characteristically negroid, heavy in type, long rather than wide, and the 
cranium slo^ies down from the middle line sharply on either side, producing a dome-shaped 
appearance, which is in keeping with the high vertical index. 
Bongos, or Dohk 
The present country of the Bongos lies between lat. 6^ and 8' N. on the south-western 
boundary of the depression of the Bahr-El-Gliazal Basin. “ In the extent of its area the land 
covers about the same surface as Belgium, but it is a deserted wilderness, averaging only 
about eleven or tw-elve people to the square mile. On the north it is only divided by a small 
country from that of the Dinka, which, however, it directly joins upon the north-east; the 
eastern branch of the extensive Nyam-nyam lands joins the Bongo at the south.”' 
Measurements were made of seven individuals at Eenk and Melut, and the hair was 
found to be short, siiarse and straight, the teeth usually complete and perfect. In stature 
they measured 169-2 cm., the lower limb measuring 85 cm., and more than half the total 
stature. The upper arm and forearm together measured, on an average, ()l-4 cm., and the 
wddth of the trunk at the shoulders was 118 mm. The average length of the head was only 
188 mm., and the cephalic index 76-7. The vertical index was 72-1, and there is, therefore, 
a distinct tendency to luesaticephaly among all the individuals. The facial index was 95, a 
figure which is only rivalled by that found in the Furawis. 
Sch-ss-einfurtb, “ The Heart of Africa.” 
