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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



vol. 59 



the different grades of stature. In general the head shows larger 

 size the more considerable is the height of the body, and vice versa ; 

 however, in individuals above the average in stature the relative size 

 of the head lags behind the body height, while in those of statures 

 below the average the body height decreases in a more rapid ratio 

 than the size of the head. The short men or women of any racial 

 group, therefore, may be expected to possess heads absolutely smaller, 

 but relatively to stature larger, than the tall individuals. 



Precisely such conditions as outlined above are shown by the 

 Kharga natives. They appear clearly in the succeeding tables, the 

 first of which gives the average head-stature index, with its range 

 of variation, in this series of Egyptians, while the second exhibits 

 the variation of the index with that of stature. 



KHARGA OASIS, MEN: THE HEAD-STATURE INDEX, OR PER-MILLE RELATION 



OF CEPHALIC MODULE (MEAN CRANIAL DIAMETER) TO 



STATURE (STATURE = 1000) 



Number of observations : 150. 



Average: 94.0. 1 (1st 50: 94.0; 2d 50: 94.3; 3d 50: 93.7.) 



Median: 94.1. Mode: 94-5 (94-1-95)- 



Minimum: 85.9. Maximum: 101.8. 



Table of frequencies : 





% 



00 



1 



00 

 00 



On 



00 

 1 







On 



On 



CM 

 Os 



1 



CO 

 On 



1 



On 





00 



00 



00 



06 

 00 



on 



00 



6 



ON 



On 



CM 



On 



CO 



On 



Number of cases. 



j 





6 



I 



5 



10 



16 



16 



19 



Per cent 



0.7 





4.0 



0.7 



3.3 



6.7 



10.7 



10.7 



12.7 























00 

















,_, 



M 





























in 



NO 



t^ 



00 



On 













? 



On 



On 



On 



On 





J_, 



M 





hH . 



M . 



*~*. 



M . 



M m 



M . 



0' 



M * 





Tt- 



10 



NO 



r^ 



00 



On 







O 





ON 



ON 



On 



ON 



On 



On 



HH 





Number of cases 



21 



18 



14 



9 



4 



5 



I 



4 



Per cent 



14.0 



12.0 



9.3 



6.0 



2.7 



3.3 



0.7 



2.7 







1 Probable error = ± 0.169; standard deviation, <r, =3.066, 

 efficient of variability, C, = 3.258, it 0.127. 



0.119; co- 



The average head-stature index of the Kharga men with the mean 

 body height of 163.8 cm., namely P4.0 (94 mm. of body height to 

 each centimeter of the mean head diameter), is about equal to that 

 of male whites of 170 cm. in stature (according to the writer's obser- 



