云南阿昌族的体质特征

THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF THE ACHANG NATIONALITY IN YUNNAN

A somatological survey on 260 adults of Achang nationality, including 143 males and 117 females, living in Yunnan was carried out by the acthor in July, 1990. The results were as follows: Judging from their all nonmetrical data, Achang nationality shows very much typical features of yellow race. We found that they are very similar in the features of appearence, comparing the major mean values of measurements in Achang nationality with those of Han and other nationalities living in Yunnan. But Achang nationality has the same features as other minorities living in Yunnan. They have their own features of narrower head breadth, face breadth and bigonial breadth with wider mouth breadth than Han nationality. In view of the cluster graph of kinship matrix for Han nationality and 10 groups of other minorities living in Yunnan, the physical anthropological characters of Achang nationa-litp are closer to Lishu, Naxi and Jingpo nationality than to other nationalities (see figure 1). According to the analysis we consiler that Achang nationality can be classified as the Eastern Asian type of Mongoliod. They may have the same ancestry like other minorities living in Southwest Yunnan.