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tribes belong to the same racial group which is characterized by 

 brachycephalic brunets of medium stature. 



This composite type, however, has probably been formed out of 

 different racial elements. The people of the Pamirs have not lived in 

 isolation. In order to solve the question of the racial structure of these 

 tribes it is therefore necessary to compare them with the surrounding 

 peoples. 



During 1923-1934 Oshanin measured and observed 3,317 males 

 in Central Asia. Among some groups the measurements were oIj- 

 tained by assistants under his supervision. Anthropometric data on 

 the following peoples and tribes are therefore directly comparable: 

 100 Kazakhs of Talas, 100 Kirghiz of the Issyk-Kul region, and 100 

 Kirghiz of Talas; 1,704 Uzbeks and Tajiks of the Duab; 505 Turko- 

 man tribesmen of the Transcaspian steppes; 433 Karategin Tajiks; 

 202 Jews, immigrants from Asia anterior in the tenth century ; and 53 

 Iranis (Persians), 56 Azerbaijanis, and 83 Baluchis, all immigrants 

 from adjacent regions of Iran. 



Part of the material has been published,^^ the remainder being now 

 in press or in preparation. 



Oshanin has identified five racial types in Central Asia: 



I. Predominant among the Uzbeks and Tajiks, inhabiting the 

 plains and foothills between the Amu-Darya and the Syr-Darya 



^- Oshanin, L. V., Tysiacheletniaia davnost dolikhotsefalii u turkmen (opyt 

 obosnovaniia teorii Skifo-Sarmatskogo proiskhozhdeniia turkmenskogo naroda) 

 [A thousand years of dolichocephaly among the Turkomans ; an attempt to 

 establish the foundations of a theory of a Scytho-Sarmatian origin of the Turko- 

 man people], SREDAZKOMSTARIS, Izvestia No. i, Tashkent, 1926; Kirgizy 

 iuzhnogo poberezhiia Issyk-Kulia [The Kirghiz of the southern shore of the 

 Issyk-Kul], V. V. Bartoldu [to V. V. Barthold], Festschrift published by the 

 Society for the Study of Tajikistan and of the Iranian peoples outside its 

 boundaries, Tashkent, 1927; Uzbeki Khorezma [The Uzbeks of Khwarazm], 

 pts. I-II, Biu. Sredne Aziatskogo Universiteta [Bull. Centr. Asiatic Univ.], 

 No. 17 (1927) and No. 18 (1928) ; Nekotorye dopolneniia k gipoteze 

 Skifo-Sarmatskogo proiskhozhdeniia turkmen [Some supplementary data to- 

 ward the hypothesis regarding the Scytho-Sarmatian origin of Turkomans], 

 SREDAZKOMSTARIS, Izvestia No. 4, Tashkent, 1928; k sravnitelnoi antro- 

 pologii etnicheskikh grupp prishlykh iz Perednei Azii — Evreev i Arabov, i 

 etnicheskikh grupp Uzbekistana — Uzbekov i Tadzhikov [Contributions to the 

 comparative anthropology of the ethnic groups which have come out of 

 Vorderasien — Jews and Arabs, and of the ethnic groups of Uzbekistan — the 

 Uzbeks and the Tajiks], in Oshanin, L. V., and lAsevich, Materialy po antro- 

 pologii Uzbekistana [Materials for the anthropology of Uzbekistan], No. i, 

 Tashkent-Samarkand, 1929; Pamirskaia antropologo — fiziologicheskaia eks- 

 peditsiia UZIEM [Physiological and Anthropological Expedition to the 

 Pamirs], Bull. UZIEM, No. 4, (5), Tashkent, 1936. 



