315 
of Edinburgh, Session 1883-84. 
Facial Index B. 
Measure No. 4 x 100 
No. 6 
= 100-8 
Facial Index C. 
Measure No. 4 x 100 
No. 7 
= 92-0. 
Skin dark brown. Iris brown. Conjunctivse dirty orange-yellow. 
Palms and soles lighter shade of brown. Teeth good ; none re- 
moved. Well nourished; not tattooed. Hair short, crisp, curly 
black. Slight down on upper lip, none on other parts of body. 
Not circumcised. 
Eyes between I and 2 Broca’s Table, only deeper. Darker when 
out of health. 
Skin between 27 and 42, colour varies ; but is lighter in shade 
than the hair, and has a more reddy hue. 
Hair (41 Broca’s Table). — The hair is extremely frizzly, fine 
in texture, and abundant, and grows in spiral tufts, the roots being 
equally distributed over the head, but thickest at the top. It 
appears to be capable of growing to a considerable length, its 
growth being favoured by a very free use of grease (without which 
it dries and comes out). The men allow their hair to grow about 
6 inches, i.e., when untwisted and measured. The women wear 
their hair rather longer, and with them the hair is trained to hang 
down ; the men’s, on the other hand, is more upright. When it has 
grown to these lengths they shave it entirely off. In shaving, some 
people leave a narrow ring of hair all round their heads like a crown ; 
others leave three or four tufts, according to the tribal number ; others 
again leave a great many small tufts growing. This is a fanciful 
arrangement, and has no particular signification. 
Dyeing the hair is not practised. Baldness before old age is very 
uncommon. The hair is rather darker in colour than the skin ; it 
turns grey about middle life. Oniy women practise the art of 
shaving ; they make it a profession, and unite with it the extraction 
of teeth ; the four upper and lower incisors being extracted from 
both sexes alike at puberty. A curved knife is used for shaving, 
the outer edge being sharp. Having placed the man’s head in her 
lap, the barber proceeds to cub off the tufts of hair, she then squirts 
