﻿NO. I NATIVES OF KHARGA OASIS — HRDLICKA IO3 



Those who are not mixed with the blacks, show a fairly uniform 

 physical type. This type is characterized by medium brown skin, 

 horizontal brown eye, black and straight hair (with a tendency to 

 wave when longer), black, straight, wavy or slightly curly and often 

 scanty beard, moderate stature, dolicho- to mesocephalic and medium 

 high head, oblong and meso- to orthognathic face, mesorhinic nose, 

 rather long and narrow ear, and moderately proportioned chest, 

 pelvis, hands and feet. They give somewhat higher pulse and 

 respiration than the average in whites, but perceptibly lower tem- 

 perature, and decidedly lower muscular force. 



The type of the Kharga natives is radically distinct from that of 

 the negro. It is according to all indications fundamentally the same 

 as that of the non-negroid Valley Egyptians. It is in all probability 

 a composite of closely related northeastern African and southwestern 

 Asiatic, or " hamitic " and " Semitic " ethnic elements, and is to be 

 classed with these as part of the southern extension of the Mediter- 

 ranean subdivision of the white race. 



Judging from the mummies of the Oasis inhabitants from the 

 2-5 centuries A. D., exhumed at El Baguat, the type of the present 

 non-negroid Kharga natives is substantially the same as that of the 

 population of the Oasis during the first part of the Christian era. 

 The nature of the population of the Oasis in more ancient times can 

 only be determined by skeletal material from the ancient cemeteries. 



In order to facilitate the general use or more extended analysis of 

 the data, the detailed measurements are appended. There is also 

 added a bibliography relating or referring to the Kharga Oasis 

 population. 



