NO. 13 SOVIET ANTHROPOLOGY — FIELD I4I 



In 1898 and 1901 N. V. Bogoiavlenskii made two trips along the 

 upper course of tlie Amu, together witli Bobrinskii and Smirnov, 



The object of his trip was tlie study of the contemporary inhabitants 

 of the Pamirs with a view to finding out whetlier they were autoch- 

 thonous, and, if so, of what race ; and, if immigrants, their origin. 

 Bogoiavlenskii concluded that Tajiks of the Darvaz are of the Persian 

 (Iranian) race, with a certain admixture of alien blood, and that their 

 ancestors did not live in the mountains, but came from the valley of 

 lAkh-Su under the pressure of invaders. 



Bogoiavlenskii measured approximately 600 Tajiks from the valleys 

 of Karategin, Darvaz, and the western Pamirs. Unfortunately, the 

 death of Bogoiavlenskii prevented the conclusion of his labors on the 

 publication of these data."'' 



The crania from Makshevat caves, brought back by Bogoiavlenskii, 

 were studied by Zograf, who pointed out their extreme brachycephaly. 



In 191 2 Blagovcshchcnskii published brief anthropometric data on 

 21 Tajiks (15 from Ferghana, 4 from Karategin and Darvaz, and i 

 each from Afghanistan and Persia) whom he measured in the Eye 

 Clinic at Marghellan. 



Shults collected anthropological materials in the Pamirs during 

 1911-1912. He thinks that the Tajiks of the western Pamirs belong 

 to an "Ar)'an" people who came from the west. According to Shults, 

 Pamirian Tajiks are slender, of medium-tall structure, with elongated 

 extremities, small feet and hands, and thin calves. Their faces are 

 elongated, with prominent noses, deep-set, dark, usually brown, green, 

 gray, rarely blue, eyes. Their hair is dark or brown, sometimes light. 

 Skin color is brownish. Yet even a superficial examination discloses 

 later admixtures of alien blood. Thus, the Afghan type manifests itself 

 in a broader face ; the Uzbek ("Sart") type in their straight noses and 

 thicker lips; the Hindu type in the occasional strikingly narrow face; 

 the Kirghiz type in high check bones. Sometimes the influence of the 

 Jewish and Russian types was observed. 



In one of his papers Shults gives the table of individual measure- 

 ments of 35 individuals from Khorog, yet there was some confusion 

 in the publication of the figures, and it is not possible to use them. 

 Ginzburg's conclusions are obviously based on subjective observations 

 and generalizations. 



Sir Aurel Stein, who visited the Pamirs in 1015. states briefly that 



2" They were studied and systematized by Ginzburg in 1936, with the per- 

 mission of the State Institute of Anthropolopy of the Moscow State University ; 

 the anthropometric data do not correspond with the preliminary conclusions 

 reached by Bogoiavlenskii. 



