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G. A. J. VAN DER SAN DE. 



This table will be referred to on page 352. 



The length of the lower limb, measured from the great trochanter (lying very 

 nearly on the same level as the head of the thighbone) was easy to détermine on the gene- 

 rally thin Papuans, and proved in ail schedules to exceed half the standing height, in the 

 case of N°. 14 (PL XXXVII) by 75, and of N°. 9 (PL XXXV) even by 93 m.m.; on an 

 average the anterior superior iliac spine is situated 40 m.m. higher than the trochanter. The 

 différent measurements of the lower limb may be tabulated as follows: 



Table V. Vertical measurements of lower limb, and indices. 



Total length. 



- 



Med. Ratio. 



Humboldt Bay 



Lake Sentâni o* 



Jabim ..... d* 



» cf 



Poum d 



Merauke . . . . J 



852 



851 



845 

 806 

 928 

 856 



53-2 



53-3 

 52-7 

 52.6 



5i-7 

 56.4 

 54.6 



Thigh. 



Med. Ratio. 



423 



25.9 



413 



25.9 



405 



25.1 



438 



26.5 



403 



25.6 



Lower leg. 



Foot. 



Femoro- 











tibial 

 index. 



Med. 



Ratio. 



Med. 



Ratio. 



3S7 



23-7 



59 



3-6 



9i-5 



3S0 



24.0 



59 



3-7 



92.0 



387 



24.0 



59 



3-7 



95.6 



426 



25.8 



64 



3-8 



97.2 



399 



25.4 



54 



3-8 



99.0 



Inter 



membral 



index. 



71.7 

 70.6 



70.7 



76.8 

 69.7 



Hagen. 

 schellong. 



Koch. 



The two Sentâni boys being of an âge in which (RAXKE [1905, 168]) the relative 

 length of the leg is greatest, showed indeed a slightly higher relative length than the full- 

 grown: N°. 41 (12 years) 54.3 and N°. 42 (14 years) 54.9. The relative length of the lower 

 limb for Europeans amounts to 50.5 (FRITSCH [1899, 162]). 



In the 'Pro portio nsschliissel" of FRITSCH, depicted in fig. 212, the right halves 

 are Papuan ; the height of the line combining the heads of the thighbones, taken as fixed, 

 could not be measured with the women, with thé resuit that the thigh and t-he lower limb 

 appear too short and the trunk is too long. A relative longer leg with the women is a real 

 sexual characteristic (ManûUVRIER [1902, 81]), though the existence of such différences with 

 maies and females of the same stature was denied by REGNAULT [1903, 287]; with the 

 women of Merauke, however, the lower limb is relatively shorter. 



The femero-humeral index with H. B. cT proved to be 74.0, Lake Sentâni çT 

 73.6, Jabim ç? 77.^, Merauke cf 1 89.5, Merauke 9 7 2 -4- 



Table VI. Girths of lower limb (length = 100), and indices. 





Thigh. 



Calf. 



Min. supra-mall. 



Thigh- 



calf 



index. 



Calf 

 index. 







Médian. 



Ratio. 



Médian. 



Ratio. 



Médian. 



Ratio. 





Humboldt Bay o* 



4S0 



55.2 



335 



37-4 



202 



23.2 



69.8 



60.3 





Lake Sentâni rf" 



4S7 



57.2 



34i 



40.0 



209 



24.5 



70.0 



61.3 





Merauke . . . . o* 



507 



54.6 



352 



37-9 



— 



— 



69.4 



— 



Koch. 



•n »•■•■" 



5°4 



58.8 



325 



38.0 



— 



— 



64.4 



— 



n 



This table will be referred to on page 352. 



