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II Gen. i, 9 V. S., 21 years. Hair very dark brown, slightly wavy; skin 

 io, 38, 22, 30. 



2, cf . J. S. Hair black, straight; skin like II 4. 



3, cf . F. S., 15 years. Hair very dark brown, wavy; skin 27, 47, 



14, 12. 



4, 9 . L. S., 12 years. Hair black, practically straight; skin 23, 



48, 15, 14. 



5, cf . A. S., 10 years. Hair black, perfectly straight; skin 20, 43, 



17. 20. 



6, 9 . P. S., 7 years. Hair dark brown, practically straight; skin 



23, 48, 15, 14. 



7, 9 . L. S., 5 years. Hair black, very wavy; skin 27, 48, 13, 12. 



8, cf . F. S., 2 years. Hair very dark brown, wavy; skin 17, 43, 



15. 25. * 



Pedigree 48. D. Family. 



I Gen. Two half-sisters had a very dark mother; skin say N 45 per cent. 



1. The father of the first was the illegitimate son of a 

 Jew and a woman with colored blood. She has dark 

 brown eyes; nearly typical curly hair; skin 25, 43, 19, 13; 

 is the wife of D., a man with dark brown eyes, dark- 

 brown straight hair, unusually white skin 2, 20, 15, 63. 

 They have seven children (II 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). 



2. The other half-sister, whose father had skin say N 

 50 per cent, has black kinky hair; dark brown eyes; skin 

 50, 32, 8, 10. Her husband is P., whose father was 

 colored, and whose mother was brunet with black hair 

 and blue eyes, the daughter of a Scotchman and a colored 

 woman. He has dark blue eyes; straight, bright red hair; 

 extremely white skin o, 19, 10, 71. He does not even tan. 

 They have two sons (II 8, 9). 



II Gen. 1, cf . G. D., 26 years. Hair dark brown, fine and very wavy; 

 skin 8, 41, 20, 31. 



2, 9 . V. D., 22 years. Nearly typical curly, dark brown hair; 



skin 16, 46, 18, 20. 



3, 9 . A. D., 17 years. Looks like an East Indian; black, slightly 



wavy hair; skin 16, 47, 17, 20. 



4, cf . C. D., 16 years. Hair dark brown, straight; skin 14, 40, 20, 



26. 



5, 9 . I. D., 14 years. Hair dark brown, rather curly; skin 23, 43, 



19, IS- 



6, 9 . M. D., 12 years. Claimed by father and mother as legiti- 



mate. Would be taken for pure black girl. Typical black 

 kinky hair; skin 50, 35, 8, 7.* 



* The mother accounted for No. 6's blackness by an illness during pregnancy, when the 

 medicine she used affected the child. Miss Danielson writes: "The dark child of 12 aroused 

 my suspicions as to the morals of the parents. I mistrust the accuracy of their statements all 

 the more as they live 'in the bush,' i.e., back from the road in a poor sort of house. Eleven 

 persons occupied the three rooms. When I was at the D. home, I at first thought this dark 

 girl was a servant, as many 'coffee-colored' negroes had the natives for servants. But 

 this family is not of the class who employ help. I used the adjective kinky to describe her 

 hair, as I wanted to emphasize the contrast between it and that of the other members of 

 the family. The black natives have coarse, kinky, almost woolly hair, which is short and 

 often braided into several short pigtails on the sides of the head. This dark girl's hair 

 was like that. I did not come across that type of hair often, nor describe it in any other 

 case, because my work was not among the black people." 

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