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average body height than that of the highest vaults. In the former 
series there are only two individuals (15%) of 1.65 m. in stature 
or above, while in the equally as large series of the highest heads, 
there are seven (or nearly 54%) of such statures. 
KHAEGA OASIS, MEN: RELATION OF HEIGHT OF HEAD TO STATUEE, 
FOEM OF HEAD AND SIZE OF HEAD 
Cases with smallest height of head 
(13.65 cm * an d below) 
Cases with greatest height of head 
(13.7 cm. and above) 
Height of 
head 
Stature 
Cephalic 
index 
Cephalic 
module 
Height of 
head 
Stature 
Cephalic 
index 
Cephalic 
module 
cm. 
cm. 
cm. 
cm. 
cm. 
cm. 
12.30 
164.5 
75-8 
15-0 
13.70 
165.0 
73-4 
15-7 
12.30 
12.35 
168.0 
160.0 
70.3 
71.7 
14.4 
I 4 .8 
13.70 
13.70 
155-2 
163.3 
75-0 
77-4 
15.8 
15.6 
12.50 
163.7 
77-8 
14.8 
13.70 
169.4 
73-5 
16.1 
12.50 
12.55 
^' 5 
169.4 
73-5 
72-4 
14.9 
14.8 
13-75 
13.80 
161.6 
169.4 
K 
15-7 
15.8 
12.55 
12.60 
12.60 
163.5 
157.8 
158.5 
68.2 
78.6 
75-5 
14.9 
14.8 
15-2 
13-80 
13-80 
13.80 
160.0 
171.1 
159.6 
71.6 
76.6 
74-3 
15-7 
15-7 
15-7 
12.65 
158.7 
73-1 
14.9 
13.85 
167.1 
74-7 
15.7 
12.65 
162.2 
72.1 
I5-I 
13.90 
150.6 
75-3 
15.3 
12.65 
161.3 
77-0 
15.2 
14.10 
168.3 
72.7 
16.1 
12.65 
164.1 
77-6 
15.0 
14.15 
171-3 
72.9 
16.2 
Averages (13 cases): 
Averages (13 cases): 
12-53 
162.0 
74.1 
14.9 
13-83 
164.0 
74-7 
15-8 
It then appears that higher stature tends in general to be ac- 
companied with an absolutely higher head, than low stature. But 
there is no direct proportion between the increase in the height of 
the head and that of the stature. Among the lowest heads the pro- 
portional relation between the height of the head and the height of 
the body is as i : 12.1, while among the highest heads it is only as 
1 : 11.9. This indicates that the growth of the head in height, while 
it to some extent augments in accord with increasing stature, is in 
the main subject to other influences. 
The most interesting comparison is that between the height of the 
head and the size of the same. The size of the head is most con- 
veniently represented by the mean cephalic diameter or the cephalic 
module. Compared with this, it is found that low height of the head 
corresponds in general to a small head as a whole, and vice versa. 1 
1 See in this connection Boas, R, The Cephalic Index, Amer. Anthropologist, 
N. S., I, 1899, pp. 448-461. All the statements advanced there are, however, 
not borne out by the present study. 
