ANTHROPOLOGY 491 



landmark. The head has rather smaller vertical relative dimensions than in the 

 European, the Dwarfs and the Nilotic negroes approaching most nearly to our mean 

 canon. The neck is relatively longer and the trunk shorter than in the white races, the 

 latter feature reaching its acme among the Bahima and Masai. Both limbs are 

 relatively increased, but whereas in the upper limb the excess is in the distal segment, 

 in the lower iti is in the proximal. The hands are smaller and the feet often relatively 

 larger than those of Europeans ; considerable racial variation, however, occurs. The 

 Masai have hands and feet both absolutely and relatively large. The Dwarf peoples, 

 Nilotic negroes, Ja-luo-speaking Kavirondo, Kamasia, Nandi, and Suk have relatively 

 smaller hands and feet than the average white, while the Bantu peoples in the series, 

 the Lendu, Karamojo, and Andorobo, have smaller hands but larger feet. 



Should more extended observations confirm the present series, the relative pro- 

 portions of the limbs and of the hands and feet would afford valuable evidence town n I s 

 a classification of the peoples of the Uganda Protectorate. 



Applying the above-mentioned facts to purposes of classification as far as can be 

 made out from the limited material at present at our disposal, a few groups can be 

 distinguished. 



The Bambute, Baamba, and Banande form a class to themselves, characterised by 

 a brachycephalic skull, broad depressed nose with a high index, flattened face, narrow 

 chin, small ears, short stature, slender limbs, and small hands and feet. 



The Masai, who are tall, dolichocephalic, mesorhine, with a low bioculo-nasal index 

 with relative great span, long lower limbs, feet and hands relatively greater than 

 Europeans, though their feet are relatively smaller than those of the Bantu group. 



The Acholi and Bari : tall, mesaticephalic, platyrhine, with a small bioculo-nasal 

 index, relatively long lower limbs, legs, and forearms, but small feet and hands. 



A group somewhat less well defined than the foregoing, comprising the Bagawla, 

 Basoga, Wanyamwezi, intermediate in most respects, yet with close mutual agreement, 

 with relatively large feet and small hands. 



A few other groups remain to be discussed. The Kavirondo fall into two series, 

 those of Bantu speech and those of Ja-luo speech, the physical characters of the two 

 approximating to the Basoga and Acholi groups respectively. 



The Lendu in most features would seem to be intermediate between the Nilotic 

 negro and the small races of the Congo Forest zone. In stature and in the proportions 

 of the limbs they agree with the Acholi, in face and ears they more closely resemble the 

 Bambute. In cephalic index and the relatively large size of the feet they agree with 

 neither. 



The Karamojo in their bodily proportions would appear to closely resemble, if they 

 have not affinities with, the Bantu-speaking group. In their cranial and facial characters 

 they seem to be intermediate between the Bantu and the Masai, though in the proportions 

 of their limbs and the size of the hands they differ widely from the latter people. 



The SRk stand in a somewhat similar relationship to the Acholi. 



The Kamasia, Nandi, and Andorobo are a somewhat aberrant group with inter- 

 mediate characters best expressed in the tables. This is a very heterogeneous group. 

 combining characteristics of other negro types. They are obviously a people of 

 mixed origin. 



The Bahima are distinguished from the other groups mainly by the prominence and 

 length of the nose. In this feature they approach the European or Hamite. The lower 

 part of the face is narrower than the average negro, the ears approach the European 

 type, and the head is actually larger than in the average negro. In short, in many 

 respects they are negroid rather than negro. In other measurements than th"~'- 

 instanced they approximate pretty closely to the Bantu. 



