562 



PYGMIES AND EOREST NEGROES 



Tbis indicates tbat altbough tbe nasal index is bigber in tbe northern tban in tbe 

 soutbern Negro, yet in tbe Dwarf races it reaches an extreme which constitutes a 

 very definite racial character, brought out equally clearly by the measurements of 

 the living. 



Tbe palate is long and narrow, tbe teeth large, both actually and relatively, to 

 tbe size of the skull. Tbe mandible is slight and characterised by shortness of the 

 condylar and coronoid processes, shallowness of the sigmoid notch, and tbe pointed 

 nature of tbe chin ; in all of which features tbe Bambute resemble the Akkas and 

 Bushmen, but differ from the Maiibettu and all surrounding Negro tribes. 



Measueements of the Mandible in Millimetres. 



Bicondylar breadth . . . 112 



Maximum bigonial breadth . 80 



Syrnphysial height .... 32 



Molar height 23 



Collognon's index, 71 '9 ; gonio-zygomatic index, 64'0. 



Bigonial arc 



Minimum height of ascending ramus 

 Minimum breadth of ascending ramus 



198 

 42 

 40 



PELVIS. 



Measurements in Millimetres. 



Maximum breadth between the outer lips of the iliac crests . .191 



Breadth between the anterior superior iliac spines 181 



Breadth between the anterior inferior iliac spines . . ... 143 



Breadth between the posterior superior iliac spines . . .70 

 Breadth of ilium anterior superior to posterior superior spine . . 117 



Breadth of innominate bones, posterior superior spine to top of symphysis . — 



Height of innominatum from summit of crest to lowest part of the tuber ischii . 171 

 Vertical diameter of obturator foramen . . . ... 45 



Transverse diameter of obturator foramen . . . 27 '5 



Antero-posterior diameter of brim of pelvis ... 92 



Transverse diameter of brim of pelvis . . . . .96 



Length of sacrum ... . . 101 



Breadth of sacrum ..... .91 



Indices. 



Breadth-height index (Turner) . . . . 89'5 



Breadth-height index (Topinard) . Ill "7 



Obturator index . . , .611 



Innominate index . ... — 



Pelvic or brim index ... . 95-8 



Sacral index .... . . goi 



Tbe pelvis is slight, tbe bones but poorly marked with muscular impressions, 

 and tbe iliac crests less sinuous tban in the higher races. Tbe resemblance to the 

 pelvis of Akkas and Bushmen is close, but detailed comparison with tbe former is 

 impossible owing to tbe difference in sex between tbe individual specimens available. 

 Tbe pelvic or brim index, 95'8, places the Bambute in tbe round, or dolichopelvic, 



