530 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



The village streets are generally nothing more than gutters washed 

 out by the rain, without repair or improvement. In the center of the 

 village, however, there is a large free space or square where the old 

 men crouch or lie down and indulge in story telling. Here also 

 stands the communal house, the " taasest," its construction the same 

 as other buildings. 



The Kabyle men (pi. 7) are sturdy and are exceedingly hardy 

 in withstanding privations and the influences of the weather. Hero- 

 dotus says (i. 4, 187) : " The Libyans are in fact the healthiest men 

 that I know." They are slender and of medium height, although 

 persons over 180 centimeters tall are not very rare, yet undersized 

 and weak ones are hardly ever seen. Prengrueber x gives the results of 

 measurements of 294 pure Kabyles as follows : 28.9 per cent, 161-163 

 centimeters; 46.6 per cent, 164-170 centimeters; 24.5 per cent, 171-175 

 centimeters; minimum, 150 centimeters; maximum, 185 centimeters. 



The Kabyles have a dignified carriage, but are not conceited or 

 haughty like the Turks and Arabs. The color of their skin on the 

 uncovered parts of the body, as the face, hands, and feet, which are 

 exposed to the sun, is brown, and often, among the field workers, 

 dark brown, but on the covered parts it is white, as with the Euro- 

 peans. They are, therefore, as regards their bodily characteristics, 

 wrongly counted among the Hamites, who are brown over the entire 

 body, and transmit this character to their children, as I learned by 

 observing a new-born Somali child. 2 The eyes are generally brown 

 (88.6 per cent, 8 of which 41.3 per cent are dark brown, 47.3 per cent 

 light brown) ; the hair is black (74.2 per cent, 59.7 per cent deep 

 black, 14.5 per cent black brown). The face is handsomely oval, 

 orthognathic, the forehead high, the nose straight and well-propor- 

 tioned, the mouth generally small. The ear is not large, and fre- 

 quently without lobes. The growth of the beard is thick, but a long 

 beard is rarely worn ; so also the hair of the head is kept short. The 

 expression of the face is intelligent and benevolent. 



The head formation occasionally exhibits a strongly prominent 

 occiput ; rarely is the region of the temples vaulted. Narrow heads, 

 inclining to dolichocephaly, are very common, and brachycephal 

 heads are never seen. Prengrueber gives the following indices of 

 182 measurements: of 72.2 per cent, 36.4 per cent were dolichocephalic 

 up to 75 and 35.8 per cent subdolichocephalic up to 77.7; 15.7 per 



1 Dr. Prengrueber has been for many years government and colonial physician In the 

 great Kabylia with his residence at Palestro, and has improved the opportunity for the 

 anthropological study of the Kabyles to write a comprehensive treatise, which was 

 awarded the prize by the Paris Anthropological Society, but up to the present has not 

 been published. At my request he readily placed the manuscript at my disposal with 

 permission to use the data contained in it for my studies. I here express to him my 

 warmest thanks for this courtesy. 



^Zeitschrift filr Ethnologic 1906, p. 159. 



a These statistics are everywhere taken from Prengrueber's treatise. 



