MALES
---------------------+---------+---------------------------------
| | Right
| +------+-------+---------+--------
Group |Specimens| | | |Breadth-
| (pairs) |Height|Breadth|Thickness| height
| | | | | index
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| |_cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | (8)| 4.5 | 4.6 | 2.11 | 102.8
United States whites | [89](200)| 4.56 | 4.64 | 2.15 | 101.7
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| Left
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| | _cm._| _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | (8)| 4.6 | 4.55 | 2.1 | 98.9
United States whites | (200)| 4.52| 4.66 | 2.17 | 103.2
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
Module (mean diameter)--Males: Munsee, right, 3.74; left, 3.75;
Whites, right, 3.78; left, 3.78.
FEMALES
---------------------+---------+---------------------------------
| | Right
| +------+-------+---------+--------
Group |Specimens| | | |Breadth-
| (pairs) |Height|Breadth|Thickness| height
| | | | | index
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| |_cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | (10)| 3.93 | 4.02 | 1.73 | 102.3
United States whites |[90](100)| 4.02 | 4.03 | 1.9 | 100.2
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| Left
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
| |_cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ |
Munsee | (10)| 3.93 | 4.05 | 1.76 | 103.1
United States whites | (100)| 3.97 | 4.08 | 1.9 | 102.7
---------------------+---------+------+-------+---------+--------
Module—Females: Munsee, right, 3.23; left, 3.25;
Whites, right, 3.32; left, 3.32.
[89] Males: 100 right, 100 left; females: 50 right, 50 left patellæ.
[90] Males: 100 right, 100 left; females: 50 right, 50 left patellæ.
The Munsee patella, while in general slightly smaller than that of the
whites, will be seen from the comparative data in the accompanying
table to average somewhat larger than that of other Indians available
for comparison. The larger size in all dimensions of the white man’s
patella than that of the Indian is doubtless due to the greater
muscularity of the white subjects from which the bones were derived and
who belonged almost exclusively to the laboring classes.
Of the 30 Munsee patellæ, 15 show a moderate to well developed
semilunar notch in the lateral border of the bone, for the _vastus
lateralis_ (pl. 28, _b_). The patellæ of female skeleton no. 285,311
are decidedly oblique, especially that on the left side; and the
patellæ of female no. 285,321 show each an exceptionally long apex.
LXXIV. THE MODULE OR MEAN DIAMETER OF THE PATELLA IN THE MUNSEE
AND OTHER GROUPS
-----------------------------+---------------+--------------
| Male | Female
Group +-------+-------+-------+------
| Right | Left | Right | Left
-----------------------------+-------+-------+-------+------
| _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._ | _cm._
Munsee | 3.74 | 3.75 | 3.23 | 3.25
Arkansas and Louisiana | 3.54 | 3.50 | 3.17 | 3.17
Southern Utah cliff-dwellers | 3.61 | 3.58 | 3 | 3
Southwest and Mexico | 3.49 | 3.49 | — | —
United States whites | 3.78 | 3.78 | 3.32 | 3.32
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