Sudan Archive

162 A. W. Tucker and C. S. Myers.—A Contribution

The numbers at the top of the thirty columns of each table refer to the following measurements:—

3. Stature. 4. Height of ear-meatus from ground.

5. Height of chin from ground.

6. Height of acromion from ground.

7. Height of elbow from ground.

8. Height of wrist „ „

9. Height of hips „ „

10. Height of knee „ „

11. Height of ankle „ „ 12. Head breadth.

13. Head length.

14. Upper facial length. 15. Total facial length.

16. Bimalar facial breadth.

17. Maximal facial breadth (bizygomatic).

19. Maximal mandibular breadth (bigonial). 22. External interorbital breadth. 24. Internal interocular breadth.

25. Nasal breadth.

26. Nasal length.

27. Orbito-nasal arc.

28. Horizontal circumference.

29. Biauricular arc.

30. Auriculo-vertical radius. 31. Auriculo-frontal radius.

32. Auriculo-nasal radius. 33. Auriculo-alveolar radius.

34. Auriculo-mental radius.

35. Auriculo-occipital radius. 44. Span of arms. Each subject, after he had been photographed and his physical features had been noted, was marked with a blue pencil on the following points:—the tip of the acromion for 6 (in the above list of measurements), the edge of the head of the radius for 7, the tip of the styloid process of the radius for 8, the upper margin of the great trochanter for 9, the lower border of the internal condyle of the femur for 10, the tip of the internal malleolus for 11, the glabella for 13 and 28, the nasion for 14, 15, 26, and 32, the lower border of the chin for 15 and 34, the lower

angle of the malar bone for 16, the angles of the jaw for 19, and the external

border of the orbits at the suture for 22 and 27.1

1 Herein we have been guided by the excellent Anthropologische Methoden, published by the late Dr. Emil Schmidt, Leipzig, 1888.

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