Chapter LXXXIII: Munsee: Astragalus

MALES
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| Right
+---------+--------+--------+--------+------+--------+-------
|Specimens| Length,|Breadth,|Height, |Module|Breadth-|Height-
|(pairs) | maximum|maximum | maximum| |length |length
| | [99] | [100] | [101] | |index |index
-------+---------+--------+--------+--------+------+--------+-------
| | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._| |
Average| (12) | 5.7 | 4.27| 3.27 | 4.41 | 74.9 | 57.4
Minimum| -- | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.05 | 4.41 | 70.7 | 54.7
Maximum| -- | 6.2 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 4.41 | 83.3 | 62.5
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| Left
+---------+--------+--------+---------+----------+--------
| Length, |Breadth,|Height, | Module | Breadth- | Height-
| maximum |maximum |maximum | (mean | length | length
| | | |diameter)| index | index
-------+---------+--------+--------+---------+----------+--------
| _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | |
Average| 5.7 | 4.28 | 3.25 | 4.41 | 75.1 | 57.1
Minimum| 5.3 | 4.05 | 3.05 | — | 72.3 | 53.8
Maximum| 6.3 | 4.7 | 3.5 | — | 79.2 | 60.7
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FEMALES
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| Right
+---------+-------+--------+-------+------+--------+-------
|Specimens|Length,|Breadth,| Height |Module|Breadth-|Height-
|(pairs) |maximum|maximum |maximum| |length |length
| | [102] | [103] | [104] | |index |index
-------+---------+-------+--------+-------+------+--------+-------
| | _cm._| _cm._ | _cm._| _cm._| |
Average| (14) | 5.19 | 3.9 | 3 | 4.02 | 75 | 57.8
Minimum| -- | 4.7 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 4.02 | 70.5 | 54.4
Maximum| -- | 5.7 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.02 | 83.7 | 62.3
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| Left
+-------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------
|Length,|Breadth,|Height,| Module |Breadth-|Height-
|maximum|maximum |maximum| (mean | length |length
| | | |diameter)| index | index
-------+-------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------
| _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._| _cm._ | |
Average| 5.22 | 3.93 | 3.03 | 4.06 | 75.2 | 58
Minimum| 4.8 | 3.6 | 2.7 | — | 69.9 | 52.8
Maximum| 5.7 | 4.15 | 3.4 | — | 83.7 | 61.5
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[99] Stem of calipers applied to lowest (most prominent) parts on medial surface of the bone.

[100] Distal branch of calipers applied to lowest (most prominent) parts on medial surface of the bone.

[101] On osteometric plane (Broca), all three lowest points of inferior surface of the bone touching the vertical board while the square is applied to the most prominent part of the bone from the opposite direction.

[102] Stem of calipers applied to lowest (most prominent) parts on medial surface of the bone.

[103] Distal branch of calipers applied to lowest (most prominent) parts on medial surface of the bone.

[104] On osteometric plane (Broca), all three lowest points of inferior surface of the bone touching the vertical board while the square is applied to the most prominent part of the bone from the opposite direction.

The results presented in this table would not be wholly satisfactory without the possibility of comparing them with similar observations, obtained by the same methods, on the bones of the whites. Such comparative data, furnished in the next table, show a number of points of considerable interest. In the first place, as with the calcaneus and other parts of the skeleton, the Munsee bones are seen throughout to be of more moderate dimensions than the bones of the whites. The module in the latter is very perceptibly higher.

There are, however, also notable differences in the relative proportions of the bones in the two races. Among the whites in both sexes the astragalus is relatively longer and also higher than it is among the Indians, as a result of which both of the indices of the bone in the whites are lower. The differences in this respect are too large and regular to be accidental.