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Let ns now glance at the evident j^oints of the living face. To 

 some extent feature directly follows the shape of the skull beneath. 

 Thus the contrast just mentioned, between the forward-sloj^ing negro 

 skull and its more upright form in the white race, is as plainly seen in 

 the portraits of a Swaheli negro and a Persian, given in Fig. 4. On 

 looking at the female portraits in Fig. 5, the Barolong girl (South 

 Africa) may be selected as an example of the effect of narrowness of 

 skull {b), in contrast wdth the broader Tartar and North American 

 faces {d,f). She also shows the convex African forehead, while they, 

 as well as the Hottentot (c), show the effect of high cheek-bones. The 

 Tartar and Japanese faces (d, e) show the skew-eyelids of. the Mongo- 

 lian race. Much of the character of the human face depends on the 

 shape of the softer parts nose, lips, cheeks, chin, etc. which are often 

 excellent marks to distinguish race. Contrasts in the form of nose 

 may even exceed that here show^n between the aquiline of the Persian 

 and the snub of the negro in Figs. 4 and 6. European travelers in 

 Tartary in the middle ages described its flat-nosed inhabitants as hav- 

 ing no noses at all, but breathing through holes in their faces. By 

 pushing the tips of our own noses upward, Ave can in some degree imi- 

 tate the manner in Avhich various other races, notably the negro, show 

 the opening of the nostrils in full face. Our thin, close-fitting lips 

 differ in the extreme from those of the negro, well seen in the portrait 



Fig. 6. African Negro. 



(Fig. 6) of Jacob Wainwright, Livingstone's faithful boy. With the 

 purpose of calling attention to some well-marked peculiarities of the 

 human face in different races, a small group of female faces (Fig. 5) is 

 given, all young, and such as would be considered among their own 



