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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 5Q 
COMPARISON OF THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE KHARGA MEN WITH THOSE 
OF SOUDANESE AND OTHER NEGROES 
Peoples (males) 
Kharga 
Oasis 
Negroes: 
Nilotic 
group 
Negroes: 
Nubian 
group 
Negroes: 
American 
(full blood) 
Observers 
Hrdlicka 
Chantre 
Chantre 
Hrdlicka 
ICQ 
2C 
26 
20 
AO 
36 2 
163.8 
174. 1 
169.0 
Height sitting, per cent of total height 
m .26 
CI .AT. 
Head: 
18 o 
l8-Q4 
18.98 
IQ-6 
14* I 
T7 .QC 
14- 1 
JCQ 
Bi-meatus line-bregma height cm 
1*1.2 
I -3 . C 
74.9 
73.66 
74.53 
76.3 
15-4 
16-0 
Per mille relation of cephalic mod- 
04-0 
Q5-0 
Face; 
Chin-nasion cm ... . . 
IT . 1C 
n.Q 
17.6 
17.05 
6.2 
A / yo 
O-O5 
Diam. bizygomatic max., cm 
13-15 
86.3 
13-3 
I3-26 
13-97 
85- 1 
74-7 
73.5 
Nose: 
Height cm 
A 8? 
4.08 
4. 2 
4.0 
Breadth , cm 
1.7-J 
4.3 
4-42 
4- 57 
Index 
76-6 
105-4 
105.0 
92.5 
Diam frontal min cm 
TO * 
jo. 6 
10. T 
10.8 
Mouth, widtn, cm 
C.4 
5.3 
C.2 
5.7 
Left ear: 
Height, cm 
6.3 
5-90 
Breadth, cm 
3.7 
o yy 
3-69 
58.9 
61 .6 
Left hand: 
ig.Q 
20-0 
O Q 
9. 1C 
46.3 
45-7 
Left foot: 
25 .4 
26.8 
IO-0 
10-3 
39.4 
J.J 
Left leg, circumference cm 
1.2. 
^6-9 
9. CONCLUSIONS 
The Kharga Oasis Egyptians are people in general of somewhat 
subnormal physical development, due principally to long lasting 
defective nutrition. 
The majority of the people are as yet but little mixed with the 
negro. 
