﻿64 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



The height of the face is believed to be to some extent directly 

 related to the length of the head, and, as shown in the following 

 table, the condition holds good in general for the Kharga natives ; 

 the average length of the head in the 17 men with the shortest faces 

 is, in absolute figures, decidedly lower than that in the 16 men with 

 the highest faces. But the height of the face and length of the head 

 do not retain the same relations from the minimum to the maximum 

 grades of the dimensions. The average height of the face amounts 

 to 60.1 per cent of the average length of the head; but the average 

 of the series of 17 shortest faces stands only in the proportion of 

 55.1 to 100 to the head length of the same individuals, while in the 

 16 men with the longest faces the proportion rises to 65.3 per cent. 

 Or, if we express the relation in another way, the length of the head 

 is to the height of the face in those with average height of the latter 

 as 166.5, m those with the absolutely lowest faces as 181. 5, and in 

 those of absolutely highest faces as 153..2 to 100. The height of the 

 face therefore does not preserve throughout the series equal pro- 

 portions with the length of the head, but augments at a more rapid 

 rate. The causes of this phenomenon, which will probably be found 

 in all ethnic groups, offer a field for further investigation. 



The height of the head averages exactly as much in the Kharga 

 men with the lowest as in those with the highest faces, and there- 

 fore these two dimensions in this particular ethnic group influence 

 each other, if at all, only immaterially. 



The relation of face height to head form is disappointingly small ; 

 it is such that the average of the series of lowest faces corresponds 

 to a slightly higher (by 1.2 points) average cephalic index than that 

 of the highest faces ; but in the individual cases there are many 

 irregularities. These data, and those spoken of in the preceding 

 paragraph, show that in the Kharga Egyptians a correlation exists 

 in a plainly evident form only between the height of the face and the 

 length of the head — which agrees with other observations on the sub- 

 ject ; and that no regular correlation appears between the facial 

 height and the head height or head breadth. 



The height of the face shows apparently also, it is seen in the 

 next table, a certain relation with the stature. The series of 

 individuals with the lowest faces is marked by a very perceptibly 

 lower average stature than that of the highest faces. A high stat- 

 ure, therefore, carries with it, in general, a higher face. It how- 

 ever also carries with it, as seen in previous sections, a longer or 

 rather larger head, and it is the latter with which the facial height is, 



