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Table 6. — Cephalic index of peoples in the Caucasus ^ 



People Locality No. C. I. Observer 



Turks Nakhichevan 151 76.1 Anserov 



Tatars Azerbaidzhan 207 77.6 Various 



Kurds Transcaucasia 77.6 Ivanovskii 



Tatars Aralych 16 77.96 Chantre 



Azerbaidzhanis Azerbaidzhan 78.1 Deniker 



Persians Azerbaidzhan 78.4 Deniker 



Kurds Transcaucasia 78.5 Deniker 



Circassians (Mokoch 



tribe) 78.5 Chantre 



Tatars Azerbaidzhan 19 78.83 Chantre 



Yezidis Yerevan district 20 78.90 Field 



Tats Baku 129 79.2 Deniker 



Turkomans North Caucasus 302 79.3 lArkho 



Turks Gandzha, Azerbaidzhan 230 79.3 lArkho 



Azerbaidzhanis Azerbaidzhan 79.4 von Erckert 



Tatars Yerevan 17 80.11 Chantre 



Tajiks Norachaine 14 80.1 1 Chantre 



Chechens Ingushetia 80.4 Chantre 



Osetes 14 80.5 von Erckert 



Gurians 80.5 Chantre 



Yezidis Total in Tbilisi 51 80.58 Field 



Osetes Terek 80.7 Chantre 



Khevsurs Khevsuretia 80.7 Chantre 



N. Abkhazians (Abaze 



tribe) 80.7 Chantre 



Kumyks 130 80.8 Debets and 



Trofimova 



Imeretians 80.9 Chantre 



Kalmyks 80.9 von Erckert 



Edishkul Nogais 145 80.9 lArkho 



Edissan Nogais 146 81.0 lArkho 



Osetes 16 81. 1 von Erckert 



Karatchais 81. i Chantre 



Osetes (tall) 20 81.3 Gilchenko 



Circassians Adighe 81.4 Deniker 



Osetes 16 81.4 von Erckert 



Osetes 300 81.5 Riskine 



Azerbaidzhanis Lake Goktcha 81.6 Chantre 



Abazes 11 81.6 von Erckert 



Kurds 81.6 Chantre 



Yezidis Lake Van district 22 81.75 Field 



Osetes 554 81.9 Deniker 



Circassians 81.9 von Erckert 



Kabardins Kuban 82.0 Chantre 



Circassians 54 82.05 Kappers 



Circassians (Shapsug 



tribe) 82.1 Chantre 



^ Note. — In the compilation of the data on the cephalic index among the peoples of the 



Caucasus I have used Baschmakoff (1937. PP- 29-31), Rudolf Martin, Gilchenko, lArkho, 

 and the figures quoted in my "Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran." (H. F.) 



