RACIAL GROUPS — HOUGH. 655 



menians, Arabs, mixed Semites, and Jews. This section of Asia is 

 mountainous and semiarid. The people are cultivated in the arts, 

 but not in the mechanic arts. This remark is true for all Asia. The 

 study of the Continent of Asia is one of the most pressing needs con- 

 fronting all scientific lines of research. 



MONGOL MAN. 



Mongolia. 



The Mongols occupy central Asia, mainly in the eastern half of 

 the Desert of Gobi, and form the Atlantic division of Friedrich 

 Muller's Mongoloid Asiatics. They are pale yellowish in color, 

 rather short in stature, with coarse straight hair of round section. 

 They subsist upon their herds of sheep and camels, of which they 

 have numbers. (See pi. 83.) 



TIBETAN MAN. 

 Tibet. 



The Tibetans belong primarily to the Tibeto-Burmese subdivision 

 of the yellow race. They live in the great central high plateau of 

 Asia. Their country is sterile, mountainous, without roads; the 

 climate very severe. They are of medium stature, of yellowish 

 color, and have coarse black hair, somewhat wavy. The obliquity 

 of the eye is much less marked than in the typical yellow race. 



The costume consists of heavy boots, trousers of felt, a shirt of 

 raw silk, and a very large wide-sleeved gown of red woolen cloth, 

 lined with sheepskin. Hats are rarely worn. (See pi. 84.) 



DWELLING GROUP OF THE AINO. 



Island of Tezo, Japan. 



The Aino are aboriginal inhabitants of Yezo, the remnants of an 

 extensive habitation of the islands. They are noted for their hairi- 

 ness. Their houses are thatched frameworks, one portion of the 

 structure corresponding to doorway or antechamber of northern 

 houses. Storehouses are set on posts like the Eskimo storehouses. 

 Connected with their customs and beliefs are the bear cage and the 

 sacred hedge on which are placed the skulls of bears sacrificed. The 

 Aino weave cloth of elm bark, carve wood, and make mats, the orna- 

 mentation of which is characteristic. The group shows a mat 

 weaver, two old men whittling prayer-sticks and a group sacrificing 

 a bear. (See pi. 85.) 



AINO MAN AND WOMAN. 



The Aino are an especially interesting tribe of undetermined 

 relationship, but are thought to show traces of Aryan blood. They 



