The sitting height

A Résumé, with Comments, of the Available Literature Relating to Posture

“…The proportions of the different segments of the body change normally in the same individual up to the age of full mnaturitv. Robert Bennett Beani (12) notes that ther3 are different rates of growth of the torso at different ages and different rates of growth exist between boys and girls of tlle same age. The shape of the child's chest is different from that of the adult.…”

Anthropological studies on nicaraguan indians

“…The sitting height is proportionately short in both groups of Indians, the sitting height-stature ratio amounting on an average in the Sumus to 50.83, in the Ramas to 50.60. According to Bean (1922), the general average of this proportion in American Indians is higher, namely, in males 52.3. The tables of Bardeen (1923), containing average relative sitting heights in male Indians, list only three groups with values below that of the Sumus, namely, the Machigangas (50.1), the Arawaks (50.7), and the Pimas (50.7), whereas the 23 other groups mentioned have values above those of the Nicaraguan Indians.…”

Anthropometry of the Lake Winnipeg Indians

“…The white race has an index which falls between these extremes (52.5). The North I American Indian has an index between that of the white and the American Negro, namely 52.0 (13). Even here there is a certain latitude, Sioux having an index of 51.4 Shoshoni (52.2) Maricopa (50.8).…”

“…Primitive peoples e. g., Australians (45.5), Central Africans (47.4) and American Negroes 50.79 (12) have low indices. The Eskimo (53.7) (13) and Asiatics such as Chinese (53.6) have high indices. The white race has an index which falls between these extremes (52.5).…”