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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 
KHARGA OASIS, MEN: NASAL INDEX IN ADULTS BETWEEN 27 
AND 54 YEARS OF AGE 
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It remains to inquire into the relations of the nasal index to that of 
the face, and to the cephalic index. In detail these relations appear 
as shown below. 
The first important point observed is that low or high nasal in- 
dices are in adults, before senility becomes established, not due as a 
rule to excess or defect in one of the measurements from which 
the index is determined, but to concurrent and to a large extent 
correlative excess in one and defect in the other. Low nasal index, 
as has already been shown in other connections, goes with a greater 
than average height and a subaverage breadth of the organ, while 
high index is conditioned by a less than average height and greater 
than average breadth of the nose. And in both categories of cases, 
that is, in low as well as high nasal indices, the differences in the 
measurements from the general mean of the same dimensions are 
quite alike for the length and the breadth. Thus in the group of 
the lowest nasal indices the height of the nose stands to the general 
average of the measurement in the Kharga series (4.87 cm.) in 
round figures as 107 to 100, or +7, and the breadth as 92 to 100, 
or 8; while in the group of the highest indices, similar proportions 
are respectively 92, or 8, and 108, or +8, to 100. 
