Name: Jim Dayriel L.

Banasan Date: August 31, 2021

Subject & schedule: Dactyloscopy/Personal Identification Techniques (TF-7:30-

11:30am)

Activity 1

Exercise
Anthropometry—Bertillonage Cards

1. Ask someone to take your digital photograph (head and shoulders).

2. Upload the photograph to a computer.
3. Resize the photograph to 3″ × 3″ and print it out.
4. Cut and adhere the photo to the center of the Bertillonage card (follow format
below).
5. Record the following anthropometric measurements on Bertillonage card (Use
a Short Bond Paper): Scan your outputs and upload. (You can accomplish the
card directly on a word document whichever is more convenient)

a. Height
b. Length of the left ear
c. Width of the left ear
d. Length of the right little finger
e. Measurement of wingspan (from the left middle finger to the right middle finger
when the arms are held
parallel to the ground)
f. Length of the left index finger
g. Length of the left forearm
h. Length of the left foot
Sample of a Bertillonage Card
Post Activity Questions

1. Why is it important to know the historical figures behind the development of

fingerprint analysis? It is important so that we can under how it is became more reliable
method for identifying persons and to have background on how to apply properly in the
field of identification.

2. What is the purpose of a certification test? For record purposes

3. What is Bertillonage? It is a system of identification which incorporates a series of

refined bodily measurements, physical description, and photographs.

4. Compare your anthropometric measurements with those of your classmates (contact

at least 5 of your classmates). Do any two individuals have the same or similar
measurements? Yes

5. Why is Bertillonage inferior to fingerprints for recording and classifying criminal

records? Because The Bertillon system was superseded by fingerprinting as the primary
method of identification