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Show G2G EX pLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F T II E TABLE AU. No.l9. - SYRIAN. (" Hnbltnnt do Doth 16om (P•lcatlno) :"-Galtl-it Royale dt G!Jstumu, Pl. 2.] A most charncteristical type of people I know well. No. 20. -ARAB. [" Azoml Arab, ncnr Cosa~yr :"-by PmBBm D1AV£NNX81 In Madden' I Oricnkll .Albu!IL, London, fol., 1846, 1'1. 8.] "Voilil. los Arabes-Bedouins. * * * * We have enlarged somewhat in detail on this race, because, in the midst of this hybrid population of Syria, -of this confused mixture of Greeks, Jows, Turks, Bn.rbnresquos, Armenil\ns, Fmnks, [i. e. E1tropea11a], Mnronitos, Druzes, and Moghraboes-it is tho only people that oil'ors a special and homogeneous character, the only ono whoso ethnography can be attached to primitive t.raditions, und to the history of the frrst n.gos" (TAYLOR & REYDAUD, La Syrie, l'Egypte, la. Paleati11e, et la Jud{e, Paris, fol. 1889, i. p. 125.) No. 21. - FELLAH, [lllellil,d-modcrn Egyptian ponsant:-Pmsse »'AVENNEB'S portfolio, Pnrls,l866.l Compare tho 1\noient and tho modern type, n.s before exhibited (supra, Plates I, II) ; und commented on by l,ulazky (Chapter II), and by myself in "Prefatory Remarks." No. 22.-BERBER. [" i'roupcs d' Abd-ol-Kl\dor :"--Oalerit Royale dt Cbslumts, l'l. 1.] Compnro CuYLER, Atlns, Alammij~rea:- llonY ON S·t•. VJNOENT, A nthropologie de l'Afrique Ji'ran9aise (M11g. do Zool., Pnris, 184.5), Pl. 60, No. H. See, nl~o, my Chnptor V, pp. 527-48. No. 2S. - UZBEK-TATAR. ["Sjahmicr:a, gowoev.on CnnCillllor In Oolcond~>:"-from M. Pulsv.ky's colloctJon or forly-Rovon E11•t--Indlnn portrult•, by nnthu ortlsts; with Dutch MS. oatologuo, "Nnmoll ucr l'orzoon~n wlon Cont.erfytoolsln Cl1t bookjo Stnnn met nunn~zlng h(umon quulltoytob," No. 35.) No. 24.- AFFGHAN. ["A do Oabnl :"-Oaltrit lloya!t clt G!Jstulllu, Pl. 0.) Tljpta of .ilfallkitld, pp. 118-24; and against the latest Affghl\no-Jewish theories of Jtos11 and of FousT En,-beside~ noting the colored portmits of Dourau11eea in MouNTBTUAllT Er.rmNSTONf11S Oabul-sct the following nflh·mations from K1:NNIJDY. 'l'h11 Affghil.ns, "originl1lly 1\ Tur·kish or Moghul nation, but tho.t at present they arc a mixed mce, consisting of th~ inh ttbitants of Ghaur, the Turkish tribo of Kbilji [swords?], rmd tho Perso-Indian tribes dwelling between tho eastern bmnches of tho Hindn Knsb n.nd the upper pnrts of tho Indus." (Op. cit., p. 6,-supra, V, note 515; citing LF.tiOll, in Pt·oceed. Geog. Soc. of Bombay, 1888.) IV. AFRICAN REALM. (Nos. 19, 20, 21, 23, 24.) If "polyglotta" was so felicitously applied to the Asiatic world by Klaproth, and equally-well since [supra, Chapter I, p. 61.] to tho African by Koelle, in regnrd to the languo.gos spoken ov(lr more tho.u hn.lf the terrestrial superficies of our globe, another EX PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F T ll E TAB J. E AU. 627 dcsignn.tion, - tJ,nt of "multicolor"- might, with propr-iety, be given to tho bum1~u aborigines of that African continent, wherein, betwixt the Tropic of Cancer and that of Cttpricorn, the human skin possesses more shades and hues-totally independent of any imn.ginod climatologic influences- than in any given area within tho rest of this earth. 'l'o the evidences of this fl\ct (now to general renders, who fancy that a woolly-headed "uogr-o" must necessarily be black) accumulated, for southern Africa in Prichard's last volume, a11d for western in a pamphlet before citell (supra, Chl\p. HI, p. 224; Chap. V,p.551),-whilst in tho Parisian galerie antllropologique abundant colored Cl1Sta, pt\intings, and photogr·l\ph~, illnstt ·u.to all three regions-the magni!icent pla~tic collection of M. do Frobor·ville(mpra p. GO!J) will, when published, furnish for eastern Afr·icn. singulal'iy una11ticipatod oon·obomtions. On tho Mo1.arnbiquo coasts l1lono, amid tho nl\tions gr·oupod together, by this minutolyncourato observer, under tho designation "Ostro-Ncgro"- amid whom the Af' kuaa tiro tho most polychromo-naturo's palette has supplied pigments of such i11numerablo tints that, only sjzty colored caats have yielded 4 distinct nigrititLn typos, subdivided into about 81 "vo.ri<it6s." In our Ethnographic 'l'ableau, Nos. 27 and 28 represent two of those tints; and in our Alonkey-cl1art, figs. :F', C, and D, indicate three more. REFERENCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No. 25.- ABABDEE. ["Aixl-e~ .Amid eZ,..Abbadi-4.0 nnH- tics montngncs 11 3 llouos do CosH~yr :" LEFEnvuo:, Voyagt tn .Abyssinic (1830-40), l'nrl•, Atlo• fol., 3.J Knowing these people through long ycl\l'B of obscrvn.tion, I ohoMo this 1ts an admirable representation of thoir normal type; which the rMdcr can cont.rnst with an equally good Bislwrree-ns tho next austml grndtttion along tho Nile, eastern desert (Types of Afa11kind, p. 203, fig. 1 ~0). See V AI.I>1N1'1 A ( Voy. and Travels, India, &c., Loudon, 4.to, 1802-6, IT, p. 289) for ttnolhor good profile of a Bis!tarree-drn.wn by my boyhood's friend and mauhootl's udmimtion, the late Consul-GcncralliENitY SuT. No. 26. - SAHARA-NEGRO. [" 'l'ypo llthloplon (N~gro) :11-DonY D~ ST. VINO>:NT, .Anllu-opologie de !'.Afrique .li'l·anf.(M~c, Mngnsln do 7.oologlc, &c., Oct.1846; M~tmmif~r~a, 111. 0, No.IIJ; p. l:J.) Compare (8upra, Chl1ptor V, wood-out B), f•·ont-view of tho same head; together with the profile of tho Gorilla, same page, wood-cut C. No. 27. - YEDOO-NEGRO. ["OcM-JH,-out- .m, nnUf <1r Y6bou (~g6 d'onvlron 42 nne) :"-D' AvuAo, Noti"" &w· lt Ftly& ellt l'tt1plc des Ytbo1u (M6molrcs do Ia Socl6t61-:tl>nologlquc); l'o.rla, 8vo, 1839; l'lllto, nnd pp. 21- 4, 46-0.) Colored to represent an ordinary negro; but the true hue is said to bo "un noir hrun." Sec D}J FitODI'lRVHr,~, "sur In porsistl1nce des clmmcthes typiques du negro" (Bulletin de Soc. de Etlmot. de l'aria, 1847, pp. 256-7). No, 28. - MOZAMBIQUE-NEGRO. [" N~gru do Ia CilLo do Moznmlrlquo :"-ooplcd In Drndl by Ononrs, op. c·it., JnJiv., l'l. liT.] Colored to represent one of tho vurious shn.clos of the M'koua Mtion, in the incdited ooll cotiou of 60 plaster casts of Africans brought from Dolll·bon and Mauritius by M. DE FltODt:tlVILr,r; (Pttris, 1855). Vide "Rapport sur les t•accs ncgr·cs de l'Afriquo Orientale au sud do 1'6quatcu_r, obscrv_6e8 par M. do .lf~o borville;" Oomptes rendua des a6ancea de l'Acad6nue des Sc1encea, XXX, 3 JlllD1 1850; tirago iL po.rt, pp. 11-14:- also, "Ann lyse d'un Mcmoirc de M. F.ugcno de }'robcrvillc," in Bulletin de la Soci{/6 Ethnologique de Paris, ann6e 184G, I, pp. 80-09 :-and Bulletina de la Soci{l{ de Glograpltie. Iii |
