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Norman E. Gabel

PLATE 1. NEAR-AVERAGE BODY FEATURES

Stature: 173.3 cm.
Weight: 172.1 lbs.
Arm length: 75.1 cm.
Leg length: 82.2 cm.
Shoulder breadth: 41 cm.
Hip breadth: 29.1 cm.
Shoulder-hip index: 71.0
Chest breadth: 28.8 cm.
Chest depth: 22.8 cm.
Thoracic index: 75.7
Sitting height: 86.3 cm.
Sitting height-stature index: 50.0
Body build: Strongly mesomorphic

PLATE 2. NEAR-AVERAGE CRANIAL FEATURES

Head length: 187.2 mm.
Head breadth: 156.9 mm.
Cephalic index: 83.9
Head height: 128.6 mm.
Length-height index: 68.7
Length-breadth index: 81.1
Minimum frontal diameter: 109.8 mm.
Fronto-parietal index: 70.0

PLATE 3. NEAR-AVERAGE FACIAL FEATURES

Bizygomatic breadth: 146.7 mm.
Cephalo-facial index: 93.2
Zygo-frontal index: 75.3
Bigonial breadth: 109.6 mm.
Fronto-gonial index: 100.1
Zygo-gonial index: 74.7
Bicanine breadth: 39.8
Total facial height: 122.3 mm.
Total facial index: 84.1
Upper facial height: 71.3
Upper facial index: 48.9
Nasal height: 53.1
Nasal breadth: 45.5
Nasal index: 85.6

PLATE 4. NEAR-AVERAGE FACE AND NOSE FEATURES

FACE
Pronounced malars
Moderately long face
Wide gonia
Moderate chin
Moderate prognathism
NOSE
Broad bridge
Wide root
Moderate length
Thick tip
Flaring nostrils
Straight profile

PLATE 5. NEAR-AVERAGE LIP AND EAR FEATURES

LIPS
Moderately thick
Pronounced lip seam
Moderate eversion
EARS
Moderate size
Small lobe
Attached lobe
Moderate protrusion

PLATE 6. NEAR-AVERAGE HAIR FEATURES

Black color
Frizzly form
Pronounced quantity
Coarse texture
Intermediate length

PLATE 7. HAIR FORM VARIANTS

CURLY HAIRWAVY HAIR

PLATE 8. PRONOUNCED BODY HAIR

20 per cent occurrence

PLATE 9. PRONOUNCED BEARD

26 per cent occurrence

PLATE 10. FACIAL VARIATIONS

No prognathism
High forehead
Moderate browridges
Moderate prognathism
Low, receding forehead
Pronounced browridges
Pronounced prognathism
Low, receding forehead
Very pronounced browridges

PLATE 11. INTERIOR SUBJECT (MORE NEGROID)

Shorter stature
Narrower shoulders
Deeper chest
Darker skin
Narrower head
Broader nose
Thicker lips

PLATE 12. "NEGROID" FIJIAN

PLATE 13. INTERIOR SUBJECT (MORE AUSTRALOID)

Heavier beard and body hair
Lower, more sloping forehead
More compressed parietals
More pronounced brow ridges
More prognathic

PLATE 14. "AUSTRALOID" FIJIANS

PLATE 15. EASTERN SUBJECT (MORE POLYNESIAN)

Lighter skin
Less beard and body hair
Wavy hair
Wider head
Higher, steeper forehead
Less prognathic
Higher, narrower nose
Moderately thick lips

Illustration: PLATE 16. "POLYNESIAN" FIJIANS

[1] Hooton, 1946, pp. 735-763.

[2] Derrick, 1946, pp. 5-6.

[3] Ibid., pp. 7-8.

[4] Population statistics from "Fiji Information," of 1954, issued by Public Relations Office, Suva, Fiji.

[5] Hooton, 1946, p. 621.

[6] Birdsell, 1949, p. 120.

[7] Fornander, 1878.

[8] Churchill, 1911.

[9] Hocart, 1929, p. 236.

[10] Howells, 1933, p. 335.

[11] Roth, 1953, pp. 54, 55.

[12] One pound deducted for dress (usually shorts only).

[13] By subtracting sitting height from total stature.

[14] Cranial measurements are not distorted by cradling practice or other causes of deformation.

[15] Howells records skin color with the von Luschan scale. I have adjusted this scale to my own.

[16] + means medium or moderate; ++ means pronounced; +++ means very pronounced.

[17] Observation taken on the chest.

[18] W. H. Sheldon, The Variation of Human Physique, Harper and Bros., 1940.

[19] Birdsell, 1949, p. 120.

[20] Hooton, 1946, p. 621.

[21] Howells, 1933, p. 332.

[22] Simmons et al., 1945, pp. 3-4

[23] See pp. 1 and 4 of Introduction.

[Transcriber's Note: Figures incorrectly entered as zero have been calculated and inserted in {}.]






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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