Lip Eversion

AbsentSubm.+++Total
No. %No. %No. %No. %
Fiji I12 1333 41444 5524 3813
Interior0 063 4188 582 1153
East8 777 6435 290 0120
Coast0 063 30138 668 4209
N.W.1 126 3351 651 179

Lip Seam

AbsentSubm.+++Total
No. %No. %No. %No. %
Fiji I33 4429 53343 428 1813
Interior1 179 5273 480 0153
East14 1277 6429 240 0120
Coast6 3105 5094 454 2209
N.W.3 444 5632 410 079

Fijian lips are Negroid in thickness in many instances. Membranous lips are thick in 45 per cent of the series, medium in 53 per cent, and submedium in 25 per cent. Thickest lips occur in the interior and coastal areas where the pronounced type registers 65 per cent and 57 per cent, respectively. In the east, lips are more moderate in thickness, and the pronounced category drops to 30 per cent.

Integumental lips also tend to be heavy but not so much as the mucous parts. Twenty-five per cent of the total Fijians have thick integumental lips and the remainder are moderate. Howells' Fiji II series classes 80 per cent as very pronounced and the remainder as pronounced. The Solomon Islanders, with an 86 per cent incidence of very pronounced, have the heaviest lips of all.

Lip eversion varies largely between moderate and submedium, 55 percent and 41 per cent, respectively. The interior and coastal Fijians show this trait a little more often than the others, whereas the eastern people have least lip eversion. The lip seam is present in nearly all cases, but not to a pronounced degree. Fifty-three per cent are submedium and 42 per cent are moderate. The eastern groups are definitely less endowed with this trait. The other provinces vary but little from the total distribution.

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