The Study of ManG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 410 pages |
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... recorded in the past is comparatively barren because the significance of it was not understood at the time . Many ... recording them before they have become lost to sight and memory . Fruitful study results only from those facts of ...
... recorded in the past is comparatively barren because the significance of it was not understood at the time . Many ... recording them before they have become lost to sight and memory . Fruitful study results only from those facts of ...
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... recorded , would be quite enough to enable a man to be identified out of a mil- lion . The photograph is superfluous , and it is immaterial what name the man gives . This system of identification is one of the principal appli- cations ...
... recorded , would be quite enough to enable a man to be identified out of a mil- lion . The photograph is superfluous , and it is immaterial what name the man gives . This system of identification is one of the principal appli- cations ...
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... recording the tints of the hair , as the scales are printed in flat tints , so different from the gloss and translucency of hair . French anthropologists have , however , worked very largely with such colour - scales , and a limited ...
... recording the tints of the hair , as the scales are printed in flat tints , so different from the gloss and translucency of hair . French anthropologists have , however , worked very largely with such colour - scales , and a limited ...
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... recorded is the ratio of the breadth of the skull to its length . One speaks loosely of a long or a narrow , or of a short or round skull , but such vague descriptions are of no scientific value . An- thropologists now adopt the plan of ...
... recorded is the ratio of the breadth of the skull to its length . One speaks loosely of a long or a narrow , or of a short or round skull , but such vague descriptions are of no scientific value . An- thropologists now adopt the plan of ...
Page 87
... recorded range between a minimum of 59.2 in a Lambadi and a maximum of 108.6 in a Paniyan . Mr Thurston has , however , measured a Paniyan woman who possessed a nose 31 mm . in height and 37 mm . in breadth , the nasal index being 119.4 ...
... recorded range between a minimum of 59.2 in a Lambadi and a maximum of 108.6 in a Paniyan . Mr Thurston has , however , measured a Paniyan woman who possessed a nose 31 mm . in height and 37 mm . in breadth , the nasal index being 119.4 ...
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A. C. Haddon ancient Anth anthropology Aryan Australia Badagas Beddoe block-wheel blond boys brachycephalic Brahmans breadth bridge British Islands brown bull-roarer called cat's cradle century cephalic cephalic index character chariot Collignon colour Corrèze cranial index craniology Creuse Culin custom dance dark district dolichocephals Dordogne dress E. B. Tylor England English Europe evidence evolution example fair fair lady Folk-lore France girls Gomme hand Haute-Vienne head inches Inst Ireland Irish J. G. Frazer jaunting-car Jenny Jones Journ kite kite-flying lady latter length leptorhine Malay means measurements mesorhine narrow nasal index Neolithic North nose origin Paniyans photographs platyrhine played points primitive probably race round sacred savage says side singing skull slide-car song spoke-wheels stature Stewart Culin string tion Torres Straits tribes vehicles village wheels women wood