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hand. This is also apparent in the metacarpo-humeral index, which 
on both sides in the whites is higher than in the Munsee. The abso- 
lute and relative smallness of the Indian hand, particularly in the 
males and on the right side, is doubtless due to its lesser use. 
LXXVI. FIRST METACARPAL IN MUNSEE AND IN WHITES 
| 
Metacarpo- Metacarpo- 
A Length A Length, 
Both sexes Specimens!!! = -..O- humeral | Specimens - humeral 
lia maximum | “jndex maximum | “jndex 
cm. | em. 
TIGRE Ones oe eee (16) 4,55 14.4 (12) 4.35 14.0 
United States whites. ......--- (94) 4. 69 14.9 (65) 4.43 14.3 
BONES OF THE FEET 
Owing to their larger size and greater differentiation, a number of 
the bones of the feet, particularly of the tarsus, yield material for 
measurement and special observation, and have received rather 
extended attention by anatomists and anthropologists,! but as yet 
there is no perfect uniformity in the methods of measurement or of 
description. The writer’s object in selecting his measurements and 
points for description was to employ only those that appear to be 
the most sensible and significant, the most readily standardized, and 
involving no details, save in cases that may be of special importance. 
First Metatarsal 
As the first metacarpal serves in a°measure as an index of the 
size of the hand, so the first metatarsal gives an indication of that 
of the foot. The proportional length of the foot can further be 
judged from the percental relation of the first metatarsal to the 
femur. The relation between the size of the feet and that of the 
hands is expressed by the pollex-hallux index, or percental relation 
between the first metacarpal and the first metatarsal. 
There are in all 36 first metatarsals among the Munsee bones, the 
measurements and relations of which are given in the above table. 
It will be seen that the length of the bone is, on the average, greater 
in the males than in the females, but it does not differ perceptibly on 
the two sides of the body in either sex. 
The hallux-femur index is practically equal on the two sides 
(differing only in centesimals), and is larger in the males than in 
the females, showing that the foot of the Munsee male was not 
only somewhat larger than that of the female, but was also larger 
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W. Pfitzner, Beitriige zur Kenntniss des menschlichen Extremititenskelets, Morphol. Arbeiten, 1, H. 1, 
Jena, 1891; Th. Volkov, Variations squelettiques du pied chez les primates et dans les races humaines; Thése 
doctorale de la Faculté des Sciences, Paris, 1905; Chas. Fraipont, L’Astragale de l’homme Moustérien, etc., 
8°, Bruxelles, 1912; M. Reicher, Beitrag zur Anthropolcgie des Calcaneus, Archiv fiir Anthropologie, N. F., 
xu, H. 2, 1913; S. Poniatowski, Badania Antropologiczne nad Késcia Skokowa (Anthropological Studies 
of the Talus), Prace Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego, 1913. 
