Abstract: A survey on arthropometry of 404 Kazak students ( 226 males and 178 females) aging from 20 to 25 and somatoscopy of 551 adult Kazaks ( 262 males and 289 females) was done in Yili of Xinjiang, northwest part of China, in 1991.The results are as follows:
The hair is straight in form and black in color.The eye is blown in color and eye brow is medium.The Mongoloid fold is observable in 78.06% cases.The facial form is ovoid and ellipse in most cases.The shape of the earlope is circular and guadrangular in most cases.The cerumen is dry type in 56.94% individuals. Classification of indices of head and face showed the head belonging to hyperbrachycephaly, ultrabrachycephaly, hypsicephaly and tapeinocephaly, the face belonging to mesoprosopy or leptoprosopy for males and euruprosopy or mesoprosopy for females.The type of nose belongs to leptorrhiny.The average statures are 1698.7mm for males and 1584.3mm for females.The statures of both males and females belong to high types according to Martin' s Classification.

Key words: Anthropometry; Somatoscopy; Kazaks; Yili of Xinjiang