562 



PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



This indicates that although the nasal index is higher in the northern than in the 

 southern Negro, yet in the Dwarf races it reaches an extreme which constitutes a 

 very definite racial character, brought out equally clearly by the measurements of 

 the living. 



The palate is long and narrow, the -teeth large, both actually and relatively, to 

 the size of the skull. The mandible is slight and characterised by shortness of the 

 condylar and coronoid processes, shallowness of the sigmoid notch, and the pointed 

 nature of the chin ; in all of which features the Bambute resemble the Akkas and 

 Bushmen, but differ from the Manbettu and all surrounding Negro tribes. 



Measurements of the Mandible in Millimetres. 



Bigonial arc 198 



Minimum height of ascending ramus 42 



Minimum breadth of ascending ramus 40 



112 

 80 

 32 

 23 



Bicondylar breadth . 

 Maximum bigonial breadth 

 Symphysial height 

 Molar height .... 



Collognon's index, 71 "9 ; gonio-zygomatic index, 64"0. 



PELVIS. 



Measurements in Millimetres. 



Maximum breadth between the outer lips of the iliac crests .... 



Breadth between the anterior superior iliac spines 



Breadth between the anterior inferior iliac spines 



Breadth between the posterior superior iliac spines 



Breadth of ilium anterior superior to posterior superior spine 



Breadth of innominate bones, posterior superior spine to top of symphysis . 



Height of innominatum from summit of crest to lowest part of the tuber ischii 



Vertical diameter of obturator foramen 



Transverse diameter of obturator foramen 



Antero-posterior diameter of brim of pelvis . 



Transverse diameter of brim of pelvis 



Length of sacrum 



Breadth of sacrum 



Indices. 



Breadth-height index (Turner) 



Breadth-height index (Topinard) 



( )bturator index 



Innominate index ..... ..... 



Pelvic or brim index 



Sacral index 



The pelvis is slight, the bones but poorly marked with muscular impressions, 

 and the iliac crests less sinuous than in the higher races. The resemblance to the 

 pelvis of Akkas and Bushmen is close, but detailed comparison with the former is 

 impossible owing to the difference in sex between the individual specimens available. 

 The pelvic or brim index, 95 - 8, places the Bambute in the round, or dolichopelvic, 



191 



181 



143 



70 



117 



171 



4.") 



2V.") 



92 



96 

 101 



91 



89o 



1117 



011 



95 '8 



901 



