Identifier: annualreportofbu117smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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t 11.4 Oblique diameter of superior strait 11. 3 Heio-ht of subject (determined after Manouvriers method) about 1.620 m. (abovethe general average).Femurs—Lower ejjiphyses ununited. Muscular attachments, including lineaaspera, but little prominent. Length of femurs (both condyles applied to base) 43.6 Inclination of neck to shaft - 130° Xibia;—Both platycnemic. All the epiphyses ununited, especially the upper. Antero-posterior diameter at center, maximum 2. 5 Lateral diameter at center, maximum 1.62 Length (articular surface-tip of styloid) 35. 6 „ ii ■ 1 ■ 1 I length of tibia X 1001 „„ ^ Femoro-tibial index ■^,——r,— „-,. J ^82.0 I lengtli ot temora J This index is 81 in the European, 83 in the negro, and 86 in the Bushman.fibuhv—Length, 35.2. Epiphyses not yet united, particularly the upper.Tarsal, metatarsal, and phalangial bones—Nothing special. > Quain, Anatomy, 1893: Osteology, p. 127. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL, XVII
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MASHEM, SERI INTERPRETER MCGEE) THE SERI SKELETON 147* SiSume of the Ieciiliariliea of the Skeleton The nerve and blood-vessel foraniina are generally large. This character and theplatycneniic tibuK indicate an ample musculature of the subject. The height is above the general average for a woman, which, according to Topinard,is 1.53. The petro-biisilar fissures are large and visibly pervious. This condition is foundoccasionally; significance doubtful; it is more frequent in young subjects. PUitycncmic tihin-—This is considered a simian character. It was found firi^t byBroca in 1868- on bones from Eyzies; it is associated with relative strength of themuscles of the leg; is Xery frequent among the characters found on bones from theepoch of polished stone in Europe. J. Wymau found this character more accentu-ated than at Cro-Magnon or at Gibraltar on a third of the tibias from the moundsof the United States. Perforated humerus—tiotiQed first by Desmouliiis, IS26, on the humeri of Gua

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