HUMAN RACES l6l 



It is absolutely black in many Australians, whose hair 

 may be nearly straight and features almost like those of a 

 White. It may be brown in an Aino with a physiognomy 

 much like that of a Russian. It may be light tan in a dark- 

 haired Nordic, or resplendently white in a Mediterranean 

 or a Semitic brunette. 



It ranges from the blackest through dark brown and red 

 brown, to that of old leather, in the Negroes (including the 

 Bushmen). 



Color oj Eyes. This varies in white races from pale blue, or 

 greenish, or greyish, to dark brown; among the Asiatics, 

 aboriginal Americans, Polynesians and Malays, from medium 

 to very dark brown; and among the negroes from dark 

 brown to black. There are more or less marked age changes 

 in the color of the eyes in every individual. 



Color of Hair. The hair varies from almost colorless, or 

 golden, or red, through all shades of brown, to jet black, in 

 whites; from dark reddish brown to jet black, in the yellow- 

 browns; from tow-yellow to coal black in the Australian; 

 from coal- or jet-black to soot- or greyish-black, in the 

 negroes. It may vary from very light to dark brown between 

 the childhood and later adult life in the same individual 

 among the whites, or from sandy to black, as among some of 

 the Melanesians. 



Character of Hair 



The hair is straight to decidedly curly in whites; it is 

 straight to loosely wavy in yellow-browns; is straight to 

 bushy-curly or frizzly in the Australians; and presents 

 bushy curls to scant spirals, in the negroes. The degree of 

 curliness or wave may differ during the life of the same 

 individual. 



In cross-section, on the average, the hair of the white|is 

 oval, that of the yellow-browns round, that of the true 

 negro elliptic; but there is much variation and overlapping 

 throughout. 



The Skull 



The whole gamut of cephalic index, and also that of skull 

 height, is found among the whites; similarly among the 



