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 ANTHROPOMETRY OF SHOSHONEAN TRIBES

��By FRANZ BOAS

��The statistics on which the following description is based were collected during the years 1891 and 1892 in preparation for the exhibit of the department of anthropology of the World's Columbian Exposition, of which Prof. F. W. Putnam was the director. The anthropometric work of the department was in charge of the writer. The observations were made by Messrs T. L. Bolton and Walter R. Shaw. The tribes included in these statistics are the Shoshoni, the Bannock, and the Uintah, White River, Uncompagre, Moache, Capote, and Weeminuche Ute. The total series embraces 294 individuals, including 33 half bloods.

A comparison between the total results and those obtained by the two observers is first given as a test of the comparability of the material :

MEASUREMENTS OF MEN, 20-59 YEARS OF AGE

��TOTAL.

��V^K^n •

��Number Standard of

Deviation. Observa- tions.

��Stature 1661

Finger-reach 1732

Height of shoulder 1378

Height of point of finger. 637

Height sitting 867

^ Width of shoulders 386

Length of head ' 192.3

Breadth of head J 152.8

^^Breadth of face l 147-5

Height of face 118. 7

Height of nose 52.2

Breadth of nose 43.4

Height of ear. 65.2

Height of lips 15.4

1 Men twenty years and more.

��± 59-2 ± 62.5

± 54-4 ±38.8 ± 32.6

± J79

��log 107 log 109

105 107

��±

± ± ± ± ± ± -f

��6.1

4-7 5.8

5-3 30 2.8

31

3.7

��124 124 124 108 108 108

45 43

��BOLTON.

��tnm.

��Number

Observa- tions.

��1668 1729 1382

645 867 386

��64 63 64

64 61

62

��I92.2

153.4 148.5 II8.3

52.4 43-5

��73 73 73 63

63 63

��SHAW.

��Wwii

��Number

0/ Observa- tions.

��1650

1736

1372

633 867

386

��192.6

152.3

145.9 II9. 1

51.8

43.3 65.2

154

��45 44 45 45 44 45

52 52 52 45 45 45 45 43

��751

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