SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 
VOL. 59 
KHAEGA OASIS, MEN: PERCENTAL RELATION OF HEIGHT SITTING, 
TO HEIGHT STANDING 
Number of individuals: 150. 
Average: 51.26* (Sub ischia = 48.74. ) 
Median: 51.5. Mode: 51.5. 
Minimum: 47.3. Maximum: 54.3. 
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1 Probable error 0.071 ; standard deviation, <r, =1.281, 0.050; co- 
efficient of variability, C, = 2.499, 0.097. 
According to older sources, the following proportions of the 
upper and lower part of the body, as obtained by measuring the 
height sitting, have been found in different groups of whites, etc. : 
PERCENTAL VALUE OF HEIGHT SITTING, IN REGARD TO STATURE 
(After different authors, from Topinard, Elements tf'Anthrop. gen., p. 1070. )* 
Height Below 
sitting ischia 
88 Sards (d'Hercourt) 54.9 (45.1) 
100 Esthonians (Grube) 53.7 (46.3) 
loo Keltic French (Collignon) 52.6 (47-4) 
100 Cymric French (Collignon) 52.2 (47-8) 
329 Americans (white) of 21 yrs. of age 
(B. A. A. S. 1879) 52.7 (47-3) 
364 English, of 21 yrs. of age (B. A. 
A. S. 1879) 52.4 (47-6) 
60 Lithuanians (Waeber) 51.9 (48.1) 
100 Livonians (Waldhauer) 51.4 (48.6) 
100 Jews (Blechmann) 51.5 (48.5) 
184 Kabyles (Prengruber) 51.4 (48.6) 
The most interesting and probably anthropologically significant 
feature in regard to the Kharga natives, is their proximity in the 
characteristic under consideration to the Jews, and especially to the 
Kabyles. Such relation is not, however, always racial in nature, for 
it may be merely a like result of similar environmental agencies, 
particularly poor nutrition. 
Among the Indians, the typically dolichocephalic Pima gave the 
writer, for the height above ischia, 52.9 per cent ; for that below the 
1 Compare also the results obtained on the dead by W. Pf itzner, Social- 
anthropologische Studien, Zeitschrift f. Morphologic and Anthropologie, 
Vol i, 1809 p. 325 et seq. ; Vol. 3, 1901, p. 485 et seq. 
