NO. I 
NATIVES OF KHARGA OASIS HRDLICKA 
97 
KHARGA OASIS, MEN: BREADTH OF LEFT FOOT 
Number of individuals measured : 103. 
Average: lo.ocm. (ist 50: 10.1 ; 2d 50: 9.9 cm.) 
Median: 10.0 cm. Mode: 10.1 cm. 
Minimum: 8.S cm. Maximum: u.<?cm. 
Table of frequencies : 

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u 
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Number of cases. 
3 
2 
4 
4 
13 
14 
14 
14 
14 
8 
8 
3 
2 
Per cent 
2.9 
1.9 
J.5> 
12. 6 
7J.6 
JJ.(5 
JJ.6 
7.8 
7.8 
^.9 
7.9 
The preceding data show that the foot of the Kharga men, like 
the hand, is of moderate proportions. The individual variation is 
but slightly larger than in the hand ; it extends for the length over 
8.1 cm., or 0.159 P er umt of the average, and for the breadth 
over 2.4 cm. or 0.120 per unit of the average. The mean module 
of the foot (Jt-+_B_\ I?I) the mean index / B_>^joo\ ^^ 
\ 2 / \ _L, / 
These dimensions will be mainly useful for future comparisons. 
An inquiry as to the bearing of stature on the absolute and rela- 
tive dimensions of the hands and feet, brings out interesting results. 
As will be seen from the following figures, there is a clear, direct 
correlation between the height of the body and length (as well as 
breadth) of the hands as well as the feet; but the index in each case 
shows but little alteration. The correlation between the stature and 
the hand and foot length is so close that proportions of the latter 
to the stature are almost identical in the shortest and the tallest 
groups of the series, and the little change in the index shows that 
the same must be true of the breadth of the two parts. 
Another inquiry was directed into the effects on the hand and foot 
dimensions of age, and the results of this are wholly negative. The 
differences in the mean hand and foot length (as well as breadth) 
and their indices between the group of the youngest and that of the 
oldest men (both groups showing nearly equal average of stature), 
are so small as to be quite negligible. 
