SMITHSONIAN- MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 
KHAEQA OASIS, MEN: PEESSUEE FOECE IN THE HANDS 1 
Number of observations in each hand: 115. 
Average, right hand: 33.8; left hand: 31.1 kg. (ist 50: right hand 33.4, left 
hand 30.9; 2d 50: right hand 33.4, left hand 31.2.) 
Median : right hand 33, left hand 31. Modes : right hand 28 and 34, left 
hand 31. 
Minimum : right hand 24, left hand 21. Maximum : right hand 49, left hand 45. 
Table of frequencies : 
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I 
lO 
1 
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01 
I 
% 
I 
CO 
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1 
Number of cases: 
right hand 
2 
14 
16 
14 
1^ 
left hand 
2 
2 
I? 
17 
12 
22 
7 
Per cent : 
right hand 
1 7 
12 2 
13 9 
12 2 
11 3 
left hand 
1 7 
1 7 
11 3 
14 8 
10 4 
19 1 
6 1 
3 
t^ 
8 
M 
m 
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V 
CO 
I 
1 


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Number of cases : 
right hand 
10 
10 
4 
O 
c 
6 
2 
i 
left hand 
1C 
ii 
I 
4 
Per cent : 
right hand 
16 5 
8 7 
3 5 
7 8 
4 3 
5 2 
1 7 
9 
left hand 
13 
7 8 
9 6 
9 
35 
1 Maximum, in kilograms. 
KHAEGA OASIS, MEN: TESTS OF MUSCULAE FOECE: TEACTION 
Number of observations: in. 
Average: 22.3kg. (ist 50: 21.3; 2d 50: 22.6.) 
Median: 21. Mode: 25. 
Minimum : 12. Maximum : 37. 
Table of frequencies : 
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I 
M 
10 
M 
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Number of cases. 
Per cent 
2 
1 8 
10 
9.0 
14 
1? 6 
12 
10 8 
17 
11 ? 
10 
9 
16 
14 4 
13 
11 7 
3 
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7 
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5 
4 5 
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9 
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1 In kilograms. 
The above data show that the Kharga natives are on the average 
a rather weak lot. The pressure force, with the same instrument and 
method, averages in white males in the right hand about 45 kg., in the 
left 37 kg., and the traction 27 kg. Fifteen healthy and as far as 
