64 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 
The height of the face is believed to be to some extent directly 
related to the length of the head, and, as shown in the following 
table, the condition holds good in general for the Kharga natives ; 
the average length of the head in the 17 men with the shortest faces 
is, in absolute figures, decidedly lower than that in the 16 men with 
the highest faces. But the height of the face and length of the head 
do not retain the same relations from the minimum to the maximum 
grades of the dimensions. The average height of the face amounts 
to 60. 1 per cent of .the average length of the head; but the average 
of the series of 17 shortest faces stands only in the proportion of 
55.1 to ico to the head length of the same individuals, while in the 
1 6 men with the longest faces the proportion rises to 65.3 per cent. 
Or, if we express the relation in another way, the length of the head 
is to the height of the face in those with average height of the latter 
as 166.5, m those with the absolutely lowest faces as 181.5, and in 
those of absolutely highest faces as 153.2 to ico. The height of the 
face therefore does not preserve throughout the series equal pro- 
portions with the length of the head, but augments at a more rapid 
rate. The causes of this phenomenon, which will probably be found 
in all ethnic groups, offer a field for further investigation. 
The height of the head averages exactly as much in the Kharga 
men with the lowest as in those with the highest faces, and there- 
fore these two dimensions in this particular ethnic group influence 
each other, if at all, only immaterially. 
The relation of face height to head form is disappointingly small ; 
it is such that the average of the series of lowest faces corresponds 
to a slightly higher (by 1.2 points) average cephalic index than that 
of the highest faces ; but in the individual cases there are many 
irregularities. These data, and those spoken of in the preceding 
paragraph, show that in the Kharga Egyptians a correlation exists 
in a plainly evident form only between the height of the face and the 
length of the head which agrees with other observations on the sub- 
ject; and that no regular correlation appears between the facial 
height and the head height or head breadth. 
The height of the face shows apparently also, it is seen in the 
next table, a certain relation with the stature. The series of 
individuals with the lowest faces is marked by a very perceptibly 
lower average stature than that of the highest faces. A high stat- 
ure, therefore, carries with it, in general, a higher face. It how- 
ever also carries with it, as seen in previous sections, a longer or 
rather larger head, and it is the latter with which the facial height is, 
