. Anthropology. -0 ... ... 124-6 * Presentation of a ne-w craniophore, an instrument for taking all tlie-cranial projections, by Paul Topiuard, in Bull. Soo. dAuthrop., , vol. vii. p. 862, 1872. Chap, in.] PEOJECTION OF THE FOREHEAD. 275 Tliis shows—(1) That Esquimaux, and the yellow races generally,have unquestionably the longest head; Lapps, Tasmanians, andHottentots the shortest. (2) That this length is greatest relativelyto its bizygomatic breadth in Arabs, and least again in the variations in the second column are readily Esquimaux have descended in the
. Anthropology. -0 ... ... 124-6 * Presentation of a ne-w craniophore, an instrument for taking all tlie-cranial projections, by Paul Topiuard, in Bull. Soo. dAuthrop., , vol. vii. p. 862, 1872. Chap, in.] PEOJECTION OF THE FOREHEAD. 275 Tliis shows—(1) That Esquimaux, and the yellow races generally,have unquestionably the longest head; Lapps, Tasmanians, andHottentots the shortest. (2) That this length is greatest relativelyto its bizygomatic breadth in Arabs, and least again in the variations in the second column are readily Esquimaux have descended in the scale because their facegrows wide, as in all the yellow races, disproportionately to theelongation of the head. The Arabs have ascended in the scale forthe opposite reason, narrowness of the face being characteristic ofthe white races. In our opinion this absolute height of the head,the jaw included, whether relatively to its breadth or not, is acraniometrical character of the highest importance, and the more. Fio. 34.—Example of the straight forehead, with high and projecting protuberances. useful in that it is one of the indications which travellers are mostinclined to note. It is not however included in the scale in theseries of races, and is only characteristic by itself. Thus travellers,wfeen contrasting the Kaffir with the Hottentot race, speak of theformer as having a long and the latter a short head. So Australiansare distinguished from Tasmanians, the former being classed amonglong heads, the latter among short heads. Another purpose for which the craniophore is used, is to deter-mine the degree of inclination of the forehead, or rather thesituation of the frontal protuberances which form its culminatingpoint. When we put aside the breadth of the forehead measuredby the two transverse diameters, the minimum and the Stephanie,and seek to take account of its vertical development on the median 276 PROJECTION OF THE FOREHEAD. [Chap. hi. line, we are sometimes struck w
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