. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . aintedin all shades — blacks and browns; while the red (or color of honor)is given to the Egyptians alone. With these emendations, which unfortunately the nature of ourwork does not permit us to portray in colors, Mortons own wordsand wood-cuts may appropriately close this chapter on the NegroType : — For the purpose of illustration, we select a single picture from the temple (hemispeos)of Beyt-e
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . aintedin all shades — blacks and browns; while the red (or color of honor)is given to the Egyptians alone. With these emendations, which unfortunately the nature of ourwork does not permit us to portray in colors, Mortons own wordsand wood-cuts may appropriately close this chapter on the NegroType : — For the purpose of illustration, we select a single picture from the temple (hemispeos)of Beyt-el-Walee, in Nubia, in which Rameses II. is represented in the act of making warupon the Negroes — who, overcome with defeat, are flying in consternation before the multitude of fugitives in this scene (which has been vividly copied by Champol-lionStt an(] Rosellini, and which I have compared in both), I annex a fac-simile group ofnine hearts, which, while they preserve the national features in a remarkable degree, present also considerable diversity of expression. « The hair on some other figures of this group is dressed in short and separate tufts, or 270 NEGRO TYPES,Fia. inverted cones, precisely like those now worn by the Negroes of Madagascar, as figured inBottellers Voyage. In the midst of the vanquished Africans, standing in his car and urging on the conflict,is Rameses himself; whose manly and beautiful countenance will not suffer by comparisonwith the finest Caucasian models. The annexed outline (for all the figures are representedin outline only), will enable the reader to form his own conclusions respecting this extra-ordinary group, which dates in the fourteenth century before the Christian Fio. 196.
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