. 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 . 250 NEGRO TYPES. with the fact that the same type, during some eight or ten genera-tions of sojourn in the United States, is still preserved, despite oftransplantation. The following representation (Fig. 167) is traced upon a spiritedreduction by It is a double file of Negroes and Barabra(Nubians), bound, and driven before his chariot by Ramses II., atAboosimbel. This picture answer
. 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 . 250 NEGRO TYPES. with the fact that the same type, during some eight or ten genera-tions of sojourn in the United States, is still preserved, despite oftransplantation. The following representation (Fig. 167) is traced upon a spiritedreduction by It is a double file of Negroes and Barabra(Nubians), bound, and driven before his chariot by Ramses II., atAboosimbel. This picture answers well as a complement to the two Fio. Fig. 168. preceding; for we here have the brown Nubian — a dark one, and alight-colored family—admirably contrasted with the jet-black Negro;thus proving that the same divisions of African races existed then asnow, above the first cataract of the Nile at Syene. One of the same series (Fig. 168), on a largerscale, taken from It should be ob-served that he is shaded browner than the nexthead (Fig. 169); thereby showing the two com-monest colors and physiognomical lineamentsprevalent among Nubian Barabra of the presentday; who, whether owing to amalgamation, orfrom original type, approach closer to the Negrothan do the adjacent tribes — Ababdeh, Bisha-riba, &c. The same group supplies a lighter (cinnamon) shaded sample of aNubian Berberri (Fig. 169); whose name in the Arabic plural is Bar-abra. The identical designation, BaRaBaRa, is applied to the samepeople in the sculptures of several Pharaohs of the XVIIth andXVHIth dynasties, 1500 years b.
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