Ethnological study on the physical traits of mouth in the inhabitants of north-eastern section of Kyushu is as yet unavailable. An inhabitants group of Asao, Yokkaichi-machi, Usa-gun, Ohita Prefecture, was therefore, selected as the representative of inhabitants of north-eastern Kyushu, and various oral traits in these people were compared with those found in the easterner (inhabitants of Toyooka, Hiji-machi, Hayami-gun, Ohita Prefecture), southerner (inhabitants of Takajo, Miyakonojo City, Miyazaki Prefecture) and in the inhabitants of a isolated isle of north-eastern Kyushu (Himesima, Higashikunisaki-gun, Ohita Prefecture). The data obtained were assessed from ethnological view point, and were summarized as follows. 1) The oral traits in the north-eastern inhabitants had generally close resemblance to those of the easterner rather than to those of the southerner and the north-eastern islander. 2) Of all the oral traits in the north-easterner, the most significant were the mesiodistal crown gradient, torsion degree of the teeth, length of dental arch, circumscribing length of dental arch, posterior palatal height, length of palatal arch in the molar region and the width of palate. 3) The mesio-distal crown gradient in the inhabitants of north-eastern Kyushu was greater than any of those found in the Korean, Manchurian and Formosan ; the torsion degree was greater than the ones in the male inhabitants of northern Kyushu and the male Manchurian ; the circumscribing length, posterior palaatal height in the female, and the length of palatal arch and width of palate, both in the molar region were respectively greater than those found in the easterner, southerner and the north-eastern islander.
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