Chapter LXXXV: Munsee: Scaphoid

LEGEND:
A = Breadth,[105] maximum
B = Height,[106] maximum
C = Stoutness,[107] maximum
D = Stoutness-breadth index

MALES
--------+---------------------------------------------------------
| Right
+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+----
|Number of | | | | Module |Height-|
|specimens,| (A) | (B) | (C) | (mean |breadth| (D)
| pairs | | | |diameter)|index |
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+----
| | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | |
Average | (6) | 4.20 | 2.11 | 2.61 | 2.98 | 50.2 | 62.3
Minimum | — | 3.9 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 2.66 | 48.4 | 62.2
Maximum | — | 4.55 | 2.2 | 2.85 | 3.2 | 55.4 | 64.1
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+----
| Left
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----
Minimum | — | 3.65 | 1.7 | 2.45 | 2.6 | 46.6 | 60.5
Maximum | — | 4.5 | 2.25 | 2.75 | 3.16 | 53.7 | 67.1
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----

FEMALES
--------+----------------------------------------------------------
| Right
+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----
|Number of | | | | Module |Height-|
|specimens,| (A) | (B) | (C) | (mean |breadth| (D)
| pairs | | | |diameter)|index |
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----
| | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | |
Average | (6) | 3.75 | 1.96 | 2.35 | 2.69 | 52.2 | 62.7
Minimum | — | 3.5 | 1.75 | 2.25 | 2.53 | 48.1 | 60
Maximum | — | 4.05 | 2.15 | 2.5 | 2.85 | 56.1 | 66.7
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----
| Left
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----
Average | (6) | 3.72 | 1.89 | 2.31 | 2.64 | 50.8 | 62.2
Minimum | — | 3.4 | 1.7 | 2.15 | 2.43 | 45.7 | 50.8
Maximum | — | 4.05 | 2.05 | 2.45 | 2.97 | 55.4 | 68
--------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+-------+-----

[105] From the extremity of the tuberosity ad maximum.

[106] Use calipers with broad branches; hold instrument vertical; lay bone on movable branch on talus facet and raise the branch until the bone touches the under surface of the immovable branch.

[107] Same instrument as for last; lay bone on movable branch on its dorsal or superior surface; let it assume a natural position and raise the branch until the most prominent part of the plantar surface of the bone touches the under surface of the movable branch.

A comparison of the measurements of the Munsee scaphoid with those obtained on the United States whites shows a number of interesting conditions. The bone in the whites is again in both sexes and in all dimensions somewhat larger than in the Indian, The height-breadth index is identical in the females of the two races, but is more elevated, owing to a relatively greater height of the bone, in the white than in the Munsee males. The stoutness-breadth index is decidedly higher in both sexes in the whites, though more particularly so in the males. It may therefore be stated that the scaphoid in the United States whites is, in both sexes, not only absolutely but also relatively stouter, and in the males also relatively somewhat higher, than that in the Munsee Indians.