472 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The regional distribution of the blonds and brunets is shown in the 

 next table: 



Old Americans: Blonds and brtmets according to region, both sexes. 



(Percentage in round numbers.) 



Pure 

 blonds. 



Ordinary 

 blonds. 1 



"Fair."* 



True 



brunets. 



Apparent 

 brtmets. 3 



Interme- 

 diates. 



New England (106) . : 



Eastern States and mixed State ancestry 

 (788) 



South (903) 



Appalachians (126) 



Per cent. 



[ 03) 



1 12 



i '? 



! °? 



J (3) 



i 2.5 



Per cent. 



(18) 



17 



(•19) 



6 



(38) 



4 



(6) 

 5 



Per cent. 



(32) 



30 



(171) 



22 



(211) 



23 



(16) 



13 



Per cent. 

 (4) 

 4 

 (S3) 

 10.5 

 (77) 

 8.5 



(1) 



1 



Per cent. 



(22) 



21 



(256) 



32 



(250) 



28 



(19) 



15 



Per cent. 



(52) 



49 



(361) 



46 



(442) 



49 



(91) 



72 



1 Includes pure blonds. 



2 Includes pure and ordinary blonds. 

 ' Includes true brunets. 



It is seen that conditions appear with especial clearness in this 

 form. New England stands well above the other groups, in the pro- 

 portion of blonds, and is also below all except the Appalachian group 

 in the proportion of darks ; but it has as many intermediates as the 

 South, and even a few per cent more than the East and mixed States. 



The South shows fewer true blonds than any of the other groups ; 

 but the " fairs " in general are fully as common in the Eastern States 

 as in the South, while brunets, both true and apparent, are even more 

 numerous in the Americans of Eastern and mixed State ancestry than 

 in those of the South. 



The Appalachian group is, as has already been shown, quite excep- 

 tional, showing but few blonds and even "fairs," but few brunets, 

 and a very large proportion of intermediates. 



The relative darkness of the Old Americans of the Eastern States 

 and of mixed State ancestry is not easy to explain, but they have, 

 doubtless, more Dutch and German and also Irish ancestry, which 

 may account for the showing. 



COMPARATIVE. 



The interest of the results of the observations on pigmentation that 

 form the subject of this paper would be much enhanced could we con- 

 trast them with observations on Americans at large and on related 

 peoples. An ideal condition would be if we could also compare them 

 with similar data on the early representatives in America of the fami- 

 lies involved, as the present data may perhaps eventually be com- 



