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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 
Girth of the Leg 
The maximum girth of the leg is a measurement which in the 
main indicates the individual development of the musculature of the 
part, but collectively is also of some anthropological significance, for 
regardless of age, health, nourishment and exercise of the part, all 
of which agencies affect its dimension, there are certain peoples, 
such as the Indian's for instance, who have in general a smaller calf 
than the whites. 
The average maximum circumference of the left leg, which is 
measured by the writer, amounts in white men less than 50 years of 
age, to about 36 cm., in the Indian the writer obtained, on 200 indi- 
viduals in good state of bodily preservation, 34.0 cm., and in 20 
apparently full-blood American negroes 36.9 cm. One hundred and 
eleven Kharga men in good condition gave the mean of only 32.0 
cm., and in more than a half the measurement was smaller. The sig- 
nificance of this relatively poor record is doubtless in the main not 
racial, but connected with the poor nutrition of the majority of the 
Oasis people and their consequent subnormal development, which 
was shown already by other determinations. 
KHAKGA OASIS, MEN: MAXIMUM GIRTH OF LEG 
Number of observations: in. 1 
Average: 32.0 cm. (ist 50: 32.1; 2d 50: 3 1.9 cm.) 
Median : 31.5 cm. Mode : 31.0-32.0 cm. 
Minimum : 27.3 cm. Maximum : 37.0 cm. 
Table of frequencies: 
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B 
B 
B 
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Number of cases 
2 
3 
ii 
22 
23 
20 
17 
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Per cent 
1.8 
2-7 
p.p 
19-8 
20.7 
18.0 
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8.1 
2- 7 
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*No cases of plain emaciation, senile or otherwise, included. 
SUMMARY OF THE MAIN RESULTS SHOWN BY MEASUREMENTS; 
TABLES OF COMPARISON 
The Kharga men are, on the average, of short stature ; the head is 
of moderate size, medium height and dolicho- to mesocephalic in 
form ; the face is rather narrow, the nose mesorhynian, the mouth of 
fair size; the ears are rather long and narrow, the hands and feet 
of medium proportions, the legs small. In general the measure- 
ments indicate a rather poor physical development. 
