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REPOltT lU’ON PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF NILOTIC NEGROID TRIBES 
The })liotogrcTphs (Figs. Ill, 114, 117, 119, 120, 130, and 135) show them to lie a 
fairly tall, long-legged people, with long hands and forearms, and the heads to he long and 
fairly high, with wide faces. They are lean, but muscular, and the head is either shaven, 
or the hair, when present, is ornamented in fantastic shapes. Ornaments are worn round 
the arms and neck, and the clothing is often nil, at least among the males. 
The favourite weapon is the long slender-hladed spear. Their principal occupation is 
fishing, which is carried on in their liglit amljatch canoes. (Figs. 119-121.) 
They adopt the peculiar stork-like attitude of resting one foot against the inner side of 
the opposite knee when standing, which is so widely found among Nilotic negroes. (Fig. 117.) 
Their colour is jet black, hut they smear their oiled bodies with white ash. 
TABLE V.—SHILLUK TRIBE (AT MELUT, PRINCIPALLY) 
(Ilabello-occipital length 
194 
197 
190 
198 
195 
‘J(IU 
190 
201 
210 
192 
Aver¬ 
age 
l‘)G 
^laxiuimii lireadth 
144 
14.") 
1.3.0 
135 
Idfl 
144 
140 
144 
144 
128 
140 
Cr/ih((Iic 
7/f J 
73-1: 
71-1 
OS-:' 
74-4 
7 > 
7.3-7 
7h0 
OS-5 
00- 7 
71-4 
Auricnlo-vertical height... 
141 
197 
133 
134 
128 
132 
138 
135 
143 
133 
1.35 
I'ertical Index 
7J-7 
(JO-5 
7a 
07- 7 
05-0 
00 
'/V-n 
07-3 
OS 
69-3 
OS-0 
Total face length. 
— 
11(1 
— 
120 
ion 
118 
iin 
120 
105 
120 
— 
JIax. interzygomatic In-eadth ... 
— 
14.-! 
— 
1.38 
1.33 
134 
132 
1.33 
133 
lOH 
— 
Facial Index 
— 
70 
57 
75 
8S 
ss 
90 
71) 
tl3 
03 
Span of arms . 
— 
l.SOU 
1,820 
1850 
1900 
1880 
201 
1800 
18.50 
1880 
1828 
Stature 
— 
1770 
17G0 
1800 
17.50 
1800 
1880 
1700 
1760 
1760 
17G7 
B U R U N S 
This tribe, hitherto largely unknown, inhabits a tract of country on the western 
frontier of Aliyssinia, eastwards from Melut, from latitude 11 N. to latitude H-S N. 
TABLE VI.-BURUN TRIBE, AT SAIIATIIH 
IlE.iD .4ND S’.ICE 
Me.isubements — 
Glab.-occipital length .. 
‘20:>0 
198 
1‘JO 
190 
ni7 
198 
192 
201 
1.83 
197 
204 
Aver¬ 
age 
]\Iaxiniuiii width ... 
157 
1.50 
1.35 
150 
1.50 
1.54 
148 
147 
141 
150 
152 
~ 
Ccpluflic Index ... 
77-7 
75-S 
71-1 
78-9 
76-1 
77-S 
77-1 
7.i-l 
77-0 
76-1 
7.^-5 
70 
Auriculo-vei't. height 
141 
142 
137 
133 
142 
132 
121 
138 
128 
145 
147 
— 
J "erfleal Index 
<J9-3 
71-7 
73-1 
7a-a 
7.3-1 
00- 7 
03-0 
OS- 7 
60-9 
7.3-6 
73-1 
70 
Min. frontal 
i:lo 
120 
121 
134 
1.31 
143 
131 
142 
125 
126 
1.34 
— 
Bi-aurioular diameter 
— 
104 
102 
IIG 
115 
120 
112 
120 
115 
114 
117 
— 
Upper face length 
68 
74 
62 
5() 
08 
67 
62 
70 
56 
67 
74 
— 
Total faee length 
110 
120 
116 
100 
126 
1.30 
102 
114 
114 
122 
1.34 
— 
Max. iuterzyg. breadth .. 
140 
130 
1-2G 
138 
142 
132 
133 
1.50 
132 
140 
142 
— 
Max. internialar breadth 
128 
125 
123 
130 
127 
141 
130 
1.35 
12G 
130 
136 
— 
Ext. orl)ital breadtli 
118 
114 
los 
118 
120 
115 
115 
1 25 
115 
112 
125 
— 
Internal ocular ... 
34 
.30 
35 
36 
40 
37 
37 
41 
31 
38 
38 
— 
Facial I ml ex 
7S 
0-2 
02 
7 * 
SO 
OS 
70 
70 
SO 
S7 
94 
88 
N.is.il Measurements — 
Nasal height 
45 
47 
44 
42 
47 
5-2 
44 
48 
47 
44 
48 
— 
Nasal depth 
17 
18 
18 
15 
21 
20 
19 
21 
17 
18 
20 
— 
Nasal length 
47 
44 
42 
38 
44 
40 
42 
39 
45 
39 
.50 
— 
Nasal breadth 
40 
40 
43 
40 
49 
41 
45 
47 
38 
42 
41 
— 
Xasal Index 
Si) 
8.7 
07 
05 
104 
7i) 
10.3 
98 
SO 
9.7 
S5 
90 
