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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



vol. 59 



Such defects, therefore, have not influenced materially the average of 

 the series, and this may safely be used for comparisons. 



The average of the chin-nasion height in the Kharga men is 11.35 

 cm. ; 19 Jews measured by Weisbach (1. c.) gave the mean of 12.6, 26 

 Roumanians 11.7, 25 northern Slavs 11.6 and 20 Magyars 1 1. 1 cm., 

 while a large series of Alsatians and Germans gave Pfitzner (1. c.) the 

 mean of approximately 12.5 cm. No data, regrettably, on the Valley 

 Egyptians are available for comparison, Chantre having measured 

 the face height from chin to ophryon and Myers that from upper 

 alveolar point to nasion. The range of variation of the measurement 

 in the Kharga men, though less than that of the chin-hair line facial 

 height, is still relatively large ; it extends over 43 mm., which 

 amounts to ± 0.189 P er umt of the average; but 85.4 per cent of the 

 cases are within the limits of 10. 5-12 cm. The detailed distribution 

 of the cases shows two well separated modes, which condition in .the 

 somewhat condensed curve (fig. 8) manifests itself in a distinct 

 shouldering, quite like that which appears in the curve of distribu- 

 tion of the physiognomic facial height (fig. 6). 



KHARGA OASIS, MEN: HEIGHT OF FACE, CHIN TO A POINT 

 CORRESPONDING TO NASION 



Number of observations : 150. 



Average: 11.35cm 1 (1st 50: 11.5; 2d 50: 11.25; 3d 50: 11.3 cm.). 



Median : 11. 4 cm. Modes : 10.9 and 11.6 cm. 



Minimum : 9.6 cm. Maximum : 13.9 cm. 



Table of frequencies : 



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O . 



7 E 



co u 



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7 B 



U") U 



6 



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o . 



r s 



IN. (J 



6 



7 s 



On u 



Number of cases. . . 

 Per cent 



1 



0.7 



I 

 0.7 



2 



1.3 



1 

 0.7 



I 



0.7 



II 

 7.3 



18 

 12.0 



19 

 12.7 



14 

 9.3 





7 a 

 10 



00 



XI 



O V 



01 



oi . 



7 B 



M U 



7 S 



CO u 



VO 



7 a 



00 

 oi . 



7 B 



CO . 

 O CJ 



oj 



B 







CO 



Number of cases 



25 



16.7 



15 



10.0 



13 



8.7 



7 

 4.7 



3 



2.0 



2 



1.3 



2 

 1.3 



I 



0.7 



I 



7 



Per cent 







1 Probable error = ± 0.035 J standard deviation, <r, ± 0.6366, ± 0.025 ; co- 

 efficient of variability, C, =5.634, ±0.219. 



