Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . ureat back and front be brought to the broad Tatar form. Inthe above figure it may be noticed that while some skulls,as b, have a somewhat elliptical form, others, as a, are ovoid,having the longest cross diameter considerably behind thecentre. Also in some classes of skulls, as in a, the zygo-matic arches connecting the skull and face are fully seen;while in others, as b and c, the bulging of the skull almosthides them. In the front and back view of skulls, the pro-portion of width to height is taken in much the same way 62
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . ureat back and front be brought to the broad Tatar form. Inthe above figure it may be noticed that while some skulls,as b, have a somewhat elliptical form, others, as a, are ovoid,having the longest cross diameter considerably behind thecentre. Also in some classes of skulls, as in a, the zygo-matic arches connecting the skull and face are fully seen;while in others, as b and c, the bulging of the skull almosthides them. In the front and back view of skulls, the pro-portion of width to height is taken in much the same way 62 ANTHROPOLOGY. [chap. as the index of breadth just described. Next> Fig. lo,which represents in profile the skulls of an Australian [d),a negro {e), and an Englishman (/), shows the strongdifference in the facial angle between the two lower racesand our own. The Australian and African are prognathous,or forward-jawed, while the European is orthogimthous,or upright-jawed. At the same time the Australian andAfrican have more retreating foreheads than the European,. Fig. -Side view of skulls, d, Australian, prognathous; f, African, prognathous;/ European, orthognathous. to the disadvantage of the frontal lobes of their brain ascompared with ours. Thus the upper and lower parts ofthe profile combine to give the faces of these less-civilizedpeoples a somewhat ape-like slope, as distinguished fromthe more nearly upright European face. Not to go into nicer distinctions of cranial measurement,let us now glance at the evident points of the living some extent feature directly follows the shape of the III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 63 skull beneath. Thus the contrast just mentioned, betweenthe forward-sloping negro skull and its more upright formin the white race, is as plainly seen in the portraits of aSwaheli negro and a Persian, given in Fig. 11. On lookingat the female portraits in Fig. 13, the Barolong girl (SouthAfrica) may be selected as an example of the effect ofnarrowness of
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