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Comparison of the measurements ^ of the Miramar and Patagonian femora^ 



1 For details as to the significance of these measurements and indices and for data on primate, early 

 human, Indian, and various racial femora, the reader is referred especially to — 



Manouvkiee, L., La platymerie; in C.-R. du Congr. int. d'Anfhrop. prehht., Paris, 1889. 



Etude sur les variations morphologiqnes da corps du femur dans I'espece humaine; in Bull. 



Soc. d'Anthr. Paris, 4« s6r., iv, 1893. 

 Lehmann-Nitsche , R., tJber die langen Knochen der stidbayerischen Ueihengriiljerbevolkerung; in 



Bcitr&ge zur Anthropologic und Urgcschichte Bai/crn.s,xi, 1894. Separate, Milnchen, 1895,pp. 50-.'il. 

 Martin, R., Zur physischen Anthropologie der Feuerlander; in Arch.fUr. Anthr., xxn, Braunschweig, 



1894, p. 155 et seq. 

 HuLTKRANTZ, J. V., N&gra bidrag till Sydamerikas fysiska antropologi: in Ymcr Tidskrift utgifven af 



Svenska Salhkapet for Antropologi och Geograft, xvm, Stockholm, 1898. 

 Klaatsch, H., Die wichtigsten Variationen am Skelet der freien unteren Extremitiit des Menschen und 



ihre Bedeutung fiir das Abstammungsproblem; in Ergcbnisse der Anatomic und Entwickclungsge- 



schichte, x, Wiesbaden, 1900, p. 599 et seq. 

 Verneau, R., Les anciens Patagons, Monaco, 1903. 

 Bello y Rodriguez, S., Le femur et le tibia chez I'homme et les anthropoides; Th6se p. 1 ., Doctora 



Mfidecine, Paris, 1909, p. 109. 



2 Specimens in the United States National Museum. 



3 Approximate. 



Tibiae : Like the femora, the tibiae are of medium masculine dimen- 

 sions. Their ends are badly damaged, their surfaces eroded. They 

 present the usual slight sigmoid physiologic curvature of the shaft 

 and a moderate inclination backward of the head. The shaft at 

 middle is in shape of type No. 3 (external surface markedly con- 

 cave),^ with the addition of a fairly well marked vertical ridge 

 running down the posterior surface (approximating type No. 4), char- 

 acteristics often seen in the Indian. 



As to measurements, the length of the bones can not be deter- 

 mined. The principal diameters at the height of the nutritive 

 foramen are, on each side, respectively, 3.9 and 2.6 cm., giving the 

 moderately platycnemic index of 66.7. Seventeen male Tehuelche 

 tibiae from San Xavier, near Viedma, Patagonia, give for the same 

 dimensions the averages of 3.95 and 2.45 cm., with the platycnemic 



» See HrdliSka, A., Typical Forms of Shaft of Long Bones; Proc. Assoc. Amcr. Anatomists, 14th Ann, 

 Session, Baltimore, 1900, pp. 55-^30. 



