The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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rather widely distending nostrils; and sometimes the width of the
nose was equal to its length, or nearly so. Referring to the above matters, the following are the results of twenty measurements of Mafulu men. These were obtained from men of upwards of six different communities or groups of villages, so as to avoid the possible misleading character of measurements made in only one village or group of villages, in which some family relationship between the persons measured might militate against the true average character of the figures obtained. No. | Stature in cm. | | Length of head in cm. | | | Breadth of head in cm. | | | | Cephalic index | | | | | Cranial index (2 units deducted | | | | | from cephalic index). | | | | | | Nose length in cm. | | | | | | | Nose breadth in cm. | | | | | | | | Nasal index 1 150 18.5 14.7 79.5 77.5 4.9 4.4 89.8 2 155 18.8 15.1 80.3 78.3 4.8 4.8 100.0 3 155 19.5 14.8 75.9 73.9 5.3 4.3 81.1 4 157 18.5 15.4 83.2 81.2 4.3 4.3 100.0 5 153 18.9 14.6 77.2 75.2 4.8 4.4 91.7 6 151 18.6 14.3 76.9 74.9 4.9 3.8 77.6 7 151 19.3 15.2 78.8 76.8 5.4 4.4 81.5 |
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