The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))McGee, W J
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The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))
McGee, W J
Seri Indians; Seri language; Yuman languages
_Scapulæ_—Form normal, spine directed somewhat more upward than is
usual; whole bone light and slender; acromial epiphyses absent.
Height (middle of glenoid fossa-tip of inferior angle) 12.0
Breadth (middle of glenoid point, maximum) 8.7
_Humeri_—Form normal; bone slender; head-epiphyses not united; left
head perforated by large oval foramen from coronoid to olecranon fossa
(8 mm. by 4½ mm.)
Length of left humerus (with epiphysis) 31.3
Length of right humerus (with epiphysis) 31.0
_Ulnæ and radii_—Form normal; bones slender; lower epiphyses ununited.
Length of left radius (head and end of styloid) 24.1
Length of left ulna (olecranon-styloid) 25.8
_Metacarpus, carpus, and phalanges_—Nothing special.
_Bones of the Pelvis and Lower Limbs_
All the bones of the pelvis and lower limbs of normal shape and medium
size. Pelvis apparently that of a female (subpubic angle 100°). Bones
well united, all traces of the union in acetabulum effaced. Epiphyses
ununited except on the ischiatic protuberances, where bony union just
begins. Above the fossa acetabuli (8 mm. postero-superiorly from the
uppermost edge of the fossa) there is in both acetabula an irregularly
triangular depression of about 2 water-drops capacity (accessory
tendon?).
Anterior to posterior-superior spine 13.7
Point of pubis to posterior-superior spine 15.8
Point of pubis to anterior-superior spine 12.7
Point of pubis to point of ischium 10.8
Biiliac diameter of whole bony pelvis (between internal
iliac borders), maximum 21.0
Height of coxal bones (tuberosity of ischium to iliac
border in this case without its epiphyses), maximum 19.4
Antero-posterior diameter of superior strait 11.8
Lateral diameter of superior strait 11.4
Oblique diameter of superior strait 11.3
Height of subject (determined after Manouvrier’s method) about 1.620 m.
(above the general average).
_Femurs_—Lower epiphyses ununited. Muscular attachments, including
linea aspera, but little prominent.
Length of femurs (both condyles applied to base) 43.6
Inclination of neck to shaft 130°
_Tibiæ_—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
Femoro-tibial index {length of tibia × 100}=82.0
{length of femora }
This index is 81 in the European, 83 in the negro, and 86 in the
Bushman.[246]
[246] Quain, Anatomy, 1893: Osteology, p. 127.
_Fibulæ_—Length, 35.2. Epiphyses not yet united, particularly the upper.
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