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graphs of occupations by admitting of their being taken when the 

 performers were in motion. It could also be used on occasions when 

 the high winds woidd not allow the setting up of a tripod stand. 



2. — Physical Characters : — 



(a). The general physical characters of the people are as given 

 below, though some differences exist between the inhabitants of 

 different parts of the district. 



The people on the whole are good-looking, especially when young; 

 many of the girls and young women are very handsome, but they 

 appear to age rapidly and early become wrinkled. 



Stature and liilk. — The men of this district are as a rule of fair 

 average stature, very stoutly built, and broad shouldered ; while there 

 are few who can fairly be termed very tall, yet many reach a good 

 height, and the proportion of small men is by no means large. The 

 average stature of the 62 adult Liales measured was 1725 mm., or 

 about 5 feet 8 inches. The extremes were 1628 mm. (5 feet 4 inches), 

 and 1820 mm., or about 5 feet 11^ inches. 



The women seem to be more even in height than the men. 



Lirnis. — The hands are usually of medium size, broad and with 

 fingers squarely clubbed at the ends. The forearms (measured from 

 styloid process to the head of radius) are often very long for the 

 stature, and the span is sometimes very great, though in a few cases 

 it is less than the stature, a character also noted in the Aran Islands, 

 though the proportion of cases in which it was observed was much 

 greater there. 



JETead. — The head is generally well shaped and is often of large 

 size. The forehead is broad and upright (rarely receding), rounded 

 away at the sides, and of fair height ; superciliary ridges and glabella 

 of no great size, eye-brows thick and level. 



The cranial curve rises to a pretty fair height above the ears 

 (height index 65 '8), though not attaining the altitude seen in the 

 people of Aran and the men of Inishbofin, and descends in an even 

 sweep to the occipital protuberance as the occipital region does not 

 usually project. 



In the majority of cases, as will be seen from the table of indices, 

 the head is mesaticephalic, the mean index being 77"4 (when two 

 units are deducted to reduce to the cranial standard). Of the 62 

 persons measured, 10 were brachycephalic, and 11 dolichocephalic. 

 The extremes were 86-2 and 72-3. 



