Chapter XLVIII: Comparison of the Proportions and Index of the Shaft of the

FEMUR AT MIDDLE, IN MUNSEE, WHITES, AND NEGROES. PAIRED BONES

MALES
----------------+-------------------------+------------------------
| Right | Left
+---------+--------+------+---------+--------+-----
|Diameter | |Index |Diameter | |Index
|antero- |Diameter| |antero- |Diameter|
|posterior|lateral | |posterior|lateral |
----------------+---------+--------+------+---------+--------+-----
Munsee: | _cm._ | _cm._ | | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Specimens | (16) | (16) | (16)| (16) | (16) | (16)
Average | 2.92 | 2.55 | 87.1| 2.90 | 2.61 | 89.9
United States | | | | | |
whites: | | | | | |
Specimens | (66) | (66) | (66)| (66) | (66) | (66)
Average | 2.95 | 2.84 | 96.3| 2.95 | 2.87 | 97.4
United States | | | | | |
negroes: | | | | | |
Specimens | (6) | (6) | (6) | (6) | (6) | (6)
Average | 3.06 | 2.77 | 90.5| 3.06 | 2.77 | 90.5
----------------+---------+--------+------+---------+--------+-------
FEMALES
----------------+---------+--------+------+---------+--------+------
Munsee: | | | | | |
Specimens | (13) | (13) | (13) | (13) | (13) | (13)
Average | 2.58 | 2.35 | 91.2 | 2.48 | 2.38 | 93.1
United States | | | | | |
whites: | | | | | |
Specimens | (28) | (28) | (28) | (28) | (28) | (28)
Average | 2.64 | 2.58 | 97.7 | 2.65 | 2.63 | 99.5
United States | | | | | |
negroes: | | | | | |
Specimens | (7) | (7) | (7) | (7) | (7) | (7)
Average | 2.68 | 2.53 | 94.4 | 2.63 | 2.58 | 98.1
----------------+---------+--------+------+---------+--------+------

PLATYMERY

Another anthropologically important region of the femur is the subtrochanteric flattening, which, as well known, has been studied in whites and in other races by Manouvrier and other observers.[57] The flattening in question is situated below the minor trochanter, reaching its maximum at approximately 3 cm. below that point. It yields itself to two measurements, the maximum and the minimum diameter, and the percental relation of the latter to the former constitutes the platymeric index. This index is generally quite high in whites, in whom the flattening is but moderate.

[57] See Hrdlička, Report on Additional Skeletal Remains from Arkansas and Louisiana, _Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila._, XIV, 1909, pp. 215-216.

The next table shows the conditions found in this respect with regard to the Munsee, the United States whites, and the United States negroes.