20 GIUFFRlDA-RUGGERI & CHAKLADAR 



in a work recently published by Hilden. 1 This Finnish 

 anthropologist was able, in the summer of 1914, to make 

 a voyage to study the eastern regions of the Russian 

 Altai and to measure 162 Lebedins, 88 Tubalars and 

 49 Telengets of both sexes. He believes, from his somato- 

 logical examination, that the Lebedins, who are farthest 

 north, are to be considered as Ugres from the Ob in an 

 impure state, whilst the Tubalars are more strongly mixed 

 with the Turco-Tatar peoples, and the Telengets, who are 

 the most southern of all, must be included amongst the 

 Mongolic peoples, although they also present an Ob- 

 Ugrian element. 



In my opinion all these denominations only bring con- 

 fusion and seem to me exactly those linguistical and 

 political labels which are better left aside. For this 

 purpose we wish to show how the three ethnical groups 

 above mentioned can be simply classified according to the 

 preceding Summary I of the "Anthropometric character- 

 istics of the Asiatic Xanthoderms," and we therefore give 

 the averages of the male sex after Hilden : 



Stature Ceph. Ind. Nasal Ind. 

 " 01 Lebedin^ 1626 80'1 78'9 



87 Tubalare^ 1684 S2'7 80'7 



29 TelenetF 1631 86'2 75'6 



The averages of this last group are in admirable con- 

 cord with the averages which I have assigned to H. 

 asiaticus centralis in Summary I. For the first group there 

 is instead a choice between the two varieties aUaicus 

 and tibetanus, in whose averages we find those of the 

 Lebedins, but considering the geographical criterion 

 i.e., from the fact that we know the habitat of the 

 Lebedins the precise indication must be to assign 



HILDE'N (K.), Aitfhropofogistthe Untersuchungen uber die eingeborener. det 

 Altai. " Fenria " 42, N. 2, Helsingsfors, 1920. 



