CHAPTER VI. 



THE SOUTHERN MONGOLS. 



South Mongol Domain Tibet, the Mongol Cradleland Stone Age in Tibet 

 The Primitive Mongol Type The Balti and Ladakhi Balti Type and 

 Origins The Tibetans Proper Type The Bhotiyas Prehistoric Ex- 

 pansion of the Tibetan Race Sub-Himalayan Groups: the Gurkhas 

 Mental Qualities of the Tibetans Lamaism -The Horsoks The Tanguts 



-Polyandry The Bonbo Religion Buddhist and Christian Ritualism 

 The Prayer-Wheel Language and Letters Diverse Linguistic Types 

 Lepcha Angami-Naga and Kuki-Lushai speech Kuki Creation Legend 



General Ethnic Relations in Indo-China Aboriginal and Cultured 

 Peoples The Talaings The Manipuri Head-hunting The Game of 

 Polo The Khel System The Chins Mental and Physical Qualities- 

 Gods, Nats, and the After- Life The Kakhyens Caucasic elements 

 The Karens Type Temperament Christian Missions The Burmese 



-Type Character Buddhism Position of Woman Tattooing The 

 Tai-Shan Peoples --The Ahom, Khamti and Chinese Shans Shan 

 Cradleland and Origins Caucasic Contacts Tai-Shan Toned Speech 

 Shan, Lolo, and Mosso Writing Systems Mosso Origins Aborigines of 

 South China and Annam Man-tse Origins and Affinities- Caucasic 

 Aborigines in South-East Asia- The Siamese Shans Origins and Early 

 Records Social System Buddhism The Annamese Origins Physical 

 and Mental Characters Language and Letters Social Institutions 

 Religious Systems The Chinese Origins The Babylonian Theory- 

 Persistence of Chinese Culture and Social System-- Letters and Early 

 Records Traditions of the Stone and Metal Ages Chinese Cradle and 

 Early Migrations Absorption of the Aborigines Survivals: Hok-lo, 

 Hakka, Pun-ti Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism Fung-shui and An- 

 cestry Worship Islam and Christianity The Mandarin Class. 



CONSPECTUS. 



Primeval Home. The Tibetan Plateau. Distribu- 



Present Range. Tibet; S. Himalayan slopes ; 



Indo-China to tlie Isthmus of Kra ; China ; Formosa; Times. 

 Parts of Malaysia. 



Hair, uniformly black, lank, round in transverse Physical 



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section; sparse or no beard, moustache common. Colour, 

 generally a dirty yellowish brown, shading off to olive 

 and coppery brown in the south, and to lemon or whitish 

 in N. China. Skull, normally brachy (8o--84), but 



