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This average Kazakh type of nose, possessing a medium-prominent 

 nose root, straight or convex profile, slightly drooping tip, oval-trian- 

 gular form of nostrils, medium slanting, with medium alae with below- 

 medium flare, diflfers from Buriat and Tuvan Mongol type of nose, 

 having a low root, concave-straight profile, tilted tip, rounded-tri- 

 angular, almost horizontal nostrils and low alae. A strong suspicion is 

 aroused that this group originated from the mixing of two groups, 

 one of which had a Mongoloid, the other a Europeoid form of nose. 



Lips 



The Kazakhs have thinner lips than either the Buriats or the Tannu- 

 Tuvans. 



Eaks 



The ears protrude markedly in 89 cases (76.07 percent), the 

 remainder being in the medium category. The lobes do not agree 

 with the prevailing Mongolian type. For example, 54.16 percent were 

 tongue-shaped, 25.0 percent horizontally truncated, and 20.84 per- 

 cent triangular. In general, the ears were usually egg-shaped with a 

 certain percentage of pear-shaped forms ; greatly protruding, with a 

 well-developed helix, medium-developed anti-helix, and well-expressed 

 lobes. All these points dififer from those of the Mongoloids, and are 

 specific for the Kazakh type. 



Summary 



The Mongoloid peoples of North Asia fall into several distinct 

 groups. More clearly distinguished are the "Ugrian" type described 

 by Rudenko, having a long, narrow, low skull, and very typical 

 structure of the soft parts of the face; and the "opposite" type, eury- 

 cephalic, with a long and broad face, typical for many Turko-Mon- 

 golian peoples. We shall compare the Kazakhs with the type of other 

 Turko-Mongolian peoples in an attempt to find out whether these 

 are formed on the basis of one variety of the Mongol race, or on the 

 basis of several. 



Our Kazakhs, who are very close to Kharuzin's Kazakhs of the 

 Bukeevskaia Horde, are to be compared with the Buriats observed 

 by Talko-Grintsevich, Porotov, the Shendrikovskii and the Tannu- 

 Tuvans ^^ measured by lArkho in Kemchik. 



'^8 lArkho, A. L., Kemchikskie Tannu-Tuvintsy. Severnaia Aziia, Nos. 5-6, 

 1929. 



