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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



vol. 59 



KHARGA OASIS, MEN: NASAL INDEX IN ADULTS BETWEEN 27 

 AND 54 YEARS OF AGE 



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It remains to inquire into the relations of the nasal index to that of 

 the face, and to the cephalic index. In detail these relations appear 

 as shown below. 



The first important point observed is that low or high nasal in- 

 dices are in adults, before senility becomes established, not due as a 

 rule to excess or defect in one of the measurements from which 

 the index is determined, but to concurrent and to a large extent 

 correlative excess in one and defect in the other. Low nasal index, 

 as has already been shown in other connections, goes with a greater 

 than average height and a subaverage breadth of the organ, while 

 high index is conditioned by a less than average height and greater 

 than average breadth of the nose. And in both categories of cases, 

 that is, in low as well as high nasal indices, the differences in the 

 measurements from the general mean of the same dimensions are 

 quite alike for the length and the breadth. Thus in the group of 

 the lowest nasal indices the height of the nose stands to the general 

 average of the measurement in the Kharga series (4.87 cm.) in 

 round figures as 107 to 100, or +7, and the breadth as 92 to 100, 

 or — 8 ; while in the group of the highest indices, similar proportions 

 are respectively 92, or —8, and 108, or +8, to 100. 



