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parently all belong in the same, fairly stable, race. It is very probable 

 that there exist local and tribal variations of this race, which we shall ^ 

 conditionally call the "Central Asiatic race," owing to incorporation 

 within themselves of native (sometimes of ancient origin) elements, 

 to mestization with representatives of other races, and to the vari- 

 ability of their own race. 



Further study is necessary, especially of the Turkish and Mongol 

 tribes, in order to identify the race that interests us, after which it will 

 not be difficult to discover the nature of the admixture. In order to 

 solve the problem of the disappearance of certain racial types, such 

 as the Dinlins or Wusuns, if the information contained in the Chinese 

 chronicles is accurate, or even to trace the evolution of the racial type 

 of the Kazakhs, it is necessary to study the "large families" and other 

 similar problems. 



TURKOMANS OF KHWARAZM AND THE NORTH CAUCASUS 



lArkho ^^ gives the following summary for the lomuds and the 

 Chaudyrs of Khwarazm (Khoresm) and the Caucasus: 



lomuds. — Stature: above medium. Eyes: dark, with small ad- 

 mixture of mixed shades. Beard : growth, more than medium ; form of 

 hair, wavy. Head form : oval. Forehead : medium slanting. Supra- 

 orbital crest : below medium. Face : oval, with strong horizontal pro- 

 file. Nose : height of root above medium ; strong horizontal profile ; 

 nasal profile straight or convex ; cartilage straight ; tip slightly ele- 

 vated; nostrils slant medium, oval in cross section, medium alae, tip 

 inclination slight. Lips thin. Ears mainly oval with more than 

 average protrusion. Helix well-developed ; lobe usually attached. 



Head very narrow, long, high. Dolichocephalic. Orthocephalic 

 narrow forehead. Medium face length. Small zygomatic and bigonial 

 breadths. Leptoprosopic. Nose medium long, medium broad. Leptor- 

 rhine. Majority of individuals clearly Europeoid. 



Chaudyrs of Khwarazm. — Stature : above average. Hair and eyes : 

 dark. Beard : growth below medium. Head : oval but higher ad- 

 mixture of spheroidal and sphenoidal forms than among the lomuds. 

 Forehead : medium slanting. Supraorbital crest : below medium. 

 Face : oval, but with definite admixture of pentagonoidal forms. Nose : 

 root height below medium ; horizontal profile medium ; profile straight 

 or convex ; cartilage, straight or concave ; tip slightly elevated ; slant 

 of nostrils, medium, Epicanthic fold: relatively frequent (20 per- 



89 lArkho, A. I., Turkmeny Khorezma i Severnogo Kavkaza. AZH, Nos. 

 1-2, pp. 70-119, 1933. 



