L'écartement du gros orteil à la période de la Pierre Polie

Baudouin, Marcel

doi:10.3406/bmsap.1915.8745

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“…From the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, a number of authors described the foot shape and great toe function of living populations (Regnaut 1891 in Hindus; Michaut 1894 in Japanese and Vietnamese; Variot and Chatelin 1914 in young Chinese), of a figure in a picture entitled 'Dance Lesson' in the Museum of Reims (Regnault 1909), and of prehistoric sculptures and skeletons (Baudouin 1914(Baudouin , 1915. The common conclusion of these authors is that the great toe in barefoot populations is apart from the other four toes, and that it is employed in industry in the nineteenth-century sense because it is as prehensile as fingers.…”

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Relative foot size and shape to general body size in Javanese, Filipinas and Japanese with special reference to habitual footwear types

Ashizawa

Kumakura

Kusumoto

et al. 1997

Annals of Human Biology

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Stature, body weight, left foot length and breadth were measured on East Javanese, Filipinas in Northern Luzon, and Japanese in Tokyo. No footwear is used by the Javanese, rubber sandals are used by the Filipinas, and sneakers or leather shoes by the Japanese group. Regression lines regardless of age were obtained among these four measurements, body mass index (BMI), and relative foot breadth to foot length. The relationships between general body size and foot size/shape were examined with regard to footwear. The results can be summarized as follows: (1) in either sex, compared with the Japanese, the East Javanese have a longer foot for the same stature and body weight, and a wider foot for the same BMI and the same foot length; (2) the relationship between BMI and foot shape (breadth/length) is nearly the same in the Filipinas and the Japanese females, (3) sexual dimorphism of the foot is greater among the East Javanese than among the Japanese; (4) as body size/weight increases sexual dimorphism diminishes among the East Javanese, whereas it is more emphasized among the Japanese; (5) the appropriateness of the regression equation obtained from measurements of present-day barefoot peoples for estimation of the stature of prehistoric humans is supported.

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