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LI. MUNSEE: TIBI2—Continued 
FEMALES 
Right 
Diam- . 
eter ocd pues of Tibio- 
Num- | antero- shaft at | Num- | femoral 
Number . lateral i oa i 
af bored Length ber of posterior at rite middie ber of eee 
cases |at middle Xx cases | TX100 
a F 
(a) (b) | 
Average: cm, cm, cm, 
Paired. 2275-34555 (13) 35.3 (13) 2.6 1.98 76.1 (12) 83.7 
Total present...--..-- (14) 35.3 (13) 2.6 1.98 76.1 (12) 83.7 
MiMi 23 oe eee ees (13) 32.4 (13) 2. 25 1. 65 70. 2 (12) 81.4 
Max ENNIM 22 5 foe eee (13) Ryd) (13) 2. 85 2.3 86. 7 (12) Sian 
Left 
Average: 
Paine: 2.3. cheers (13) 35. 2 (13) 2.6 1,93 74.5 (12) 83.7 
Total present........ (14) 35. 2 (14) 2. 64 1.96 74.6 (12) 83.7 
Minimum =. -e2 32252 2. 2 (14) 32.4 (14) 2.25 To 58.8 (12) 81.5 
Maximum ss5. 5). (14) 36.7] (14) 2.8 2.35 S2N2 ily Gi) 86.1 
As to the two sides, the Munsee left tibia averages somewhat 
longer in the males than, the right, which on the whole in slight 
measure is also the condition among the whites, but to which indi- 
vidual and even group exceptions are not infrequent. In the Munsee 
females, on the other hand, the average length of the left tibia is 
slightly less (by 1 mm.) than that of the right. 
The percental relation, of the length of the tibia with the bicondylar 
length of the femur, or the tibio-femoral index, averages in whites 
approximately 82 in the males and slightly less in the females. In 
the Munsee it is somewhat more elevated in both sexes. As in the 
whites and other racial groups, a moderate excess of the male over 
the female index is present on both sides, indicating the slightly 
greater relative shortness of the female leg bones aforementioned. 
Judging from the available data on the tibio-femoral index among 
other Indians,'! that in the Munsee comes very near to the average 
of the race. 
The strength of the Munsee tibia (and the same is probably true 
of many other Indian tribes) is surprising, being nearer that of the 
whites than is the case with either the humerus or the femur. The 
antero-posterior diameter of the Indian tibia is, in fact, in almost all 
the Indian groups somewhat greater than in the whites. The index 
of the shaft is invariably and quite perceptibly lower in the Indians 
1 Compare S. Bello y Rodriguez, Le fémur et le tibia, chez Vhomme et les anthropoides, Thése, Paris, 1909, 
p. 109. 
