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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



KHARGA OASIS, MEN: 



PERCENTAL RELATION OF HEIGHT SITTING, 

 TO HEIGHT STANDING ' 



Number of individuals : ISO. 



Average: 51.26} (Sub is chia = 48.74.) 



Median: 51.5. Mode: 51.5. 



Minimum: 47.3. Maximum: 54.3. 



Table of frequencies : 





00 



0\ 







IT) 



10 



10 



CO 

 10 



10 



10 

 10 





M 



* 



M 





M 



M 



1— 1 



h- 1 







00 







 10 



IT) 



10 



CO 



10 





Number of cases 



I 



8 



9 



40 



51 



30 



10 



I 



Per cent 



0.7 



5.3 



6.0 



26.7 



34.0 



20.0 



6 . 7 



0.7 







1 Probable error = ± 0.071 ; standard deviation, tr, =1.281, ±0.050; co- 

 efficient of variability, C, = 2.499, — 0.097. 



According to older sources, the following proportions of the 

 upper and lower part of the body, as obtained by measuring the 

 height sitting, have been found in different groups of whites, etc. : 



PERCENTAL VALUE OF HEIGHT SITTING, IN REGARD TO STATURE 



(After different authors, from Topinard, Elements d'Anthrop. gen., p. 1070.) 1 



Height Below 



sitting ischia 



88 Sards (d'Hercourt) 54.9 (45-0 



100 Esthonians (Grube) 53.7 (46.3) 



100 Keltic French (Collignon) 52.6 (47-4) 



100 Cymric French (Collignon) 52.2 (47-8) 



329 Americans (white) of 21 yrs. of age 



(B. A. A. S. 1879) 52.7 (47-3) 



364 English, of 21 yrs. of age (B. A. 



A.S. 1879) 52.4 (47.6) 



60 Lithuanians (Waeber) 51.9 (48.1) 



100 Livonians (Waldhauer) 51.4 (48.6) 



100 Jews (Blechmann) 51.5 (48.5) 



184 Kabyles (Prengruber) 51.4 (48.6) 



The most interesting and probably anthropologically significant 

 feature in regard to the Kharga natives, is their proximity in the 

 characteristic under consideration to the Jews, and especially to the 

 Kabyles. Such relation is not, however, always racial in nature, for 

 it may be merely a like result of similar environmental agencies, 

 particularly poor nutrition. 



Among the Indians, the typically dolichocephalic Pima gave the 

 writer, for the height above ischia, 52.9 per cent; for that below the 



1 Compare also the results obtained on the dead by W. Pf itzner, Social- 

 anthropologische Studien, Zeitschrift f. Morphologie and Anthropologic, 

 Vol 1, 1899 P- 325 et seq. ; Vol. 3, 1901, p. 485 et seq. 



