SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 
KHARGA OASIS, MEN: FACIAL INDEX, ANATOMIC 
Number of observations : 150. 
Average: 86. j. 1 (ist 50: 87.2; 2d 50: 85.5; 3d 50: 86.1.) 
Median: 86.5. Mode: 8? (86-87.9). 
Minimum : 72.5. Maximum : 103.2. 
Table of frequencies : 
1 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
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tx 

00 
00 
oo 5 
00 
M^ 
ft 

& 
I 
00 
<* 
Number of cases 
2 
2. 
ii 
g 
24 
26 
Per cent 
1 3 
1 3 
7.3 
6 
16.0 
15.3 
17.3 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
ON 
w 
| 
i 
i 
! ? 
i 
| 
,O 
s 
5 
ON 
ON 
0\ 
ON 
ON 
Number of cases 
24 
12 
II 
2 
2 
I 
I 
Per cent 
16 8 
5 
7 J 
7 J 
7 J 
7 
(7 7 
Probable error = 0.260; standard deviation, <r, =4.724, 0.184; coeffi- 
cient of variability, C, = 5.48, it 0.213. 
The relation of the facial form with the head form is shown in 
the next table. The average lowest facial indices, in other words 
the least oblong faces, correspond to a somewhat higher cephalic 
index, that is to somewhat more rounded heads, than the average of 
the highest indices or most oblong faces ; and the same result appears 
when the lowest and highest cephalic indices are taken as the base 
of the comparison. The correspondence of the facial and head form 
is seen to be quite limited, which is rather surprising, for it was 
shown before that there exists a considerable direct correlation be- 
tween, on one side, the facial height and the head length, and on the 
other between the facial and head breadth. And the weakness of 
reciprocal relations between the two indices is made still more evi- 
dent by the many individual exceptions to their correspondence. A 
partial explanation at least of these facts appears to be possible by 
the assumption, justifiable by the conditions shown by the individual 
measurements, that the face dimensions vary to some extent inde- 
pendently of those of the head, and that this form of variation dis- 
turbs or obscures more or less the otherwise well established cor- 
relation of the parts. 
