If we were to judge the population by the women only, we might call the Otomis true pygmies.

The average stature of 28 subjects was 1,435 millimeters--while Sir William Flower's limit for pygmy peoples is 1,500 millimeters.
[Illustration: OTOMI INDIAN GIRLS; HUIXQUILUCAN] [Illustration: THE MOON-STONE, AT DOS RIOS STATION] Many of the women whom we measured and photographed carried babies; the disposition of the children while the mothers were being examined was something of a problem.

When given to another woman they usually cried lustily, and so conducted themselves as to distract the attention of their mothers and interfere seriously with our work.

In the crowd of lookers-on there chanced to be a little girl, surely not more than ten years old, who seemed to be a born caretaker.

Upon her back, supported by her _ayate_, she carried her own baby brother.