HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



head appears lower than that of the whites, owing to the decidedly 

 greater development in these Indians, in both sexes, of the supraor- 

 bital region, and the appearance is frequently heightened by the lesser 

 or greater slope of the forehead, which in a measure is due to the same 

 cause. Among the American whites the supraorbital region is gener- 

 ally but moderately developed in the males and hardly at all developed 

 in females, merging in many cases completely and without perceptible 

 line of demarkation with the forehead. Besides, the forehead in whites 

 is in many instances almost vertical — characteristics all of which favor 

 the impression of greater height. Should we enlarge the frontal sinuses 

 and the whole supraorbital region so that a marked depression or line 

 of demarkation would appear between it and the forehead proper, we 

 should get in the same subjects and without any change in the actual 

 height from nasion to hairline, the impression of a much lower fore- 

 head; and this is the case among the Chippewa. 



Another factor which enhances to some degree the apparent superi- 

 ority of the forehead in the whites is their more subdued dimensions of 

 the rest of the face. This again is particularly true of women and 

 becomes more clearly apparent when we compare the height of the 

 forehead with the total height of the face. The detailed figures bearing 

 on these questions are as follow. 



HEIGHT OF FOREHEAD 



Males Females 



Cm. Per cent Per cent 



5-30-5-5 •• i° 



5-51-6-0 3i 26 



6.01-6.5 23 31 



6.51-7-0 31 24 



7-OI-7-5 15 10 



Average 6.6 = 34.7% of total 6.3 = 35.9% of total 



facial height facial height 



Minimum 5.7 5.3 



Maximum 7.4 7.5 



Indians of the 



Southwest 6.65= 35.0% approx. 6.1 = 35.3% approx. 



Old-American 



whites 6.4 = 34.8% 6.4 = 36.6% 



Still another condition should be mentioned which, in white sub- 

 jects, and particularly in males above 30 years of age, frequently 

 causes the appearance of high forehead, and which is very rare among 

 healthy full-blood Indians. This is loss of hair over the forehead. 

 Such loss, in greater or lesser degree, is common among highly civil- 

 ized white male adults of all classes, frequently precedes the loss of hair 

 over the top, and gives the forehead a fine high aspect. 



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