l86 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 1 10 



still less pigmented. The Issyk-Kul Kirghiz are very strongly pig- 

 mented. 



In general, the Mountain Tajiks are somewhat less strongly pig- 

 mented than the Plains Tajiks and the majority of other peoples of 

 Central Asia examined in this study. The percentage of light-eyed 

 individuals among Mountain Tajiks is almost identical with that in 

 the other groups. 



Eye color 



Color No. Percent 



Dark 59 54.62 



Mixed 47 43.53 



Light 2 1.85 



D. D. Bukinich found a still larger percentage of light and mixed 

 eyes on the Turgaiskaia steppe. S. I. Rudenko found a smaller ^^ 

 percentage of light and mixed eyes (ii.o percent). This definite 

 admixture of depigmented eyes shows once more the presence in 

 Asia of traces of the mysterious light-eyed type. In contradistinction 

 to other investigators, as for example Ivanovskii, we cannot regard 

 the Kazakhs as a pure darkly pigmented type, but as a dark type with 

 a definite admixture of a mixed type. Among Samoyeds, Buriats, 

 and Torguts the mixed eye color is found much more rarely than 

 among the Kazakhs. The Telengets ^® occupy an intermediate place. 



Hair color (adults) 

 Color Fischer's scale Percent 



Black 27 67.07 



Dark brown 4-5 30.61 



Light brown 6-7 1.32 



Hair color (males aged 18 to 23) 



Color Fischer's scale Percent 



Black 27 52.04 



Dark brown 4-5 46.62 



Light brown 6-7 2.34 



Only one case of lighter hair (No. lo on Fischer's scale) was 

 observed among the adults. Red hair (Nos. 1-3) was not seen. 



Black hair (No. 27) was relatively rare in central and eastern 

 Darvaz, and more frequent in southwestern Darvaz. The Karategin 



75 lArkho comments that this may be the result of variation in standards 

 followed. 



76 Cf. lArkho, AZH, vol. 17, Nos. 3-4. 



