Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 13.—Afiican negro. negro, well seen in the portrait (Fig. 13) of Jacob Wain-wright, Livingstones faithful boy. We cannot imitate thenegro lip by mere pouting, but must push the edges upand down with the fingers to show more of the inner expression of the human face, on which intelligenceand feeling write themselves in visible cnaracters, requiresan artists training to understand and describe. The mere 66 ANTHROPOLCGY. [chap. contour of the features, as taken by photography in anunchanging attitude, has dehcate ch
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 13.—Afiican negro. negro, well seen in the portrait (Fig. 13) of Jacob Wain-wright, Livingstones faithful boy. We cannot imitate thenegro lip by mere pouting, but must push the edges upand down with the fingers to show more of the inner expression of the human face, on which intelligenceand feeling write themselves in visible cnaracters, requiresan artists training to understand and describe. The mere 66 ANTHROPOLCGY. [chap. contour of the features, as taken by photography in anunchanging attitude, has dehcate characters which we ap-preciate by long experience in studying faces, but whichelude exact description or measurement. With the purposeof calling attention to some well-marked peculiarities of thehuman face in different races, a small group of female faces(Fig. 12) is here given, all young, and such as would beconsidered among their own people as at least moderately. Fig X4.—Section of negro skin, much magnified ( KolLker). a, dermis, or ; d, c, rete muco^um ; d, epidermis, cr scarf-^kin. handsome. Setting aside hair and complexion, there isstill enough difference in the actual outline of the featuresto distinguish the Negro, Kafir, Hottentot, Tatar, Japanese,and North American faces from the English face below. The colour of the skin, that important mark of race, maybe best understood by looking at the darkest variety. Thedark hue of the negro does not lie so deep as the innermost RACES OF MANKIND. 67 or true skin, which is substantially alike among all races ofmankind. The seat of the colouring is well shown in , a highly magnified section of the skin of a negro. Flerea shows the surface of the true skin with its papillae \ this iscovered by the mucous layer, the innermost cells of which(/;) are deeply coloured by small grains of black or brownpigment, the colour shading down to brownish or yellowishtoward the outer su
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