FACES AND RACES 



Vernon L. Kellogg 

 Stanford University, California. 



THE Mid-Pacific Institute of 

 Honolulu is the result of the 

 amalgamation in 1910 of several 

 boarding and mission schools for 

 boys and girls. Oldest of its included 

 schools is the Kawaiahao Seminary, 

 primarily intended for the education of 

 Hawaiian young women and girls. It 

 was founded in 1846 and has a record 

 of much effective and beneficial work. 

 But its pupils are by no means all 

 Hawaiian although they are all, for the 

 moment, of Hawaii. This is strikingly 

 shown by the photograph, reproduced 

 herewith, of 26 of the 127 girls now in 

 the Seminary. 



This interesting photograph, which 

 was made by Miss Roselle F. Faast, 

 one of the teachers in the school, is 

 rendered accessible to the readers of the 

 Journal of Heredity by the kindness of 

 E. M. Ehrhorn, entomological super- 

 intendent of the Hawaiian Board of 

 Agriculture, who sent it to me recently 

 with the data of the races and race 

 mixtures represented by the faces pic- 

 tured in it. 



The grouping for the photograph 

 was made by Miss Faast for the sake of 

 picturing the extraordinary melange of 

 races represented in the school, and 

 includes, with one exception, all of the 

 pure and mixed race types occurring 

 in it. It reveals, therefore, the extra- 



ordinary conditions in a school under 

 the American flag in which every fifth 

 student is of different race or race 

 mixture. More than that, some of 

 thc-se mixtures are of most unusual 

 character, as Irish-Chinese-Hawaiian, 

 and Alaskan Indian- Japanese-Hawaiian, 

 and Guam-French-Mexican. 



The faces in the photograph are so 

 clear, and the racial traits so well 

 shown, that its careful study under a 

 reading glass (granted that it does not 

 lose too much of its sharpness of defi- 

 nition in the process of reproduction) 

 will enable any interested reader to 

 determine for himself, in some measure, 

 the dominating characteristics in these 

 results of certain experimental human 

 hybridizations. 



The distribution of the parentage of 

 numbers 16, 17, 23 and 25, which are 

 given in the caption of the illustration 

 as including three races each, is as 

 follows : 



No. 16: Father, half Alaskan Indian, 

 half Hawaiian; mother, half Japanese, 

 half Hawaiian. 



No. 17: Father half Portuguese and 

 half Hawaiian; mother, half French and 

 half Hawaiian. 



No. 23: Father, pure Guam; mother, 

 half Chinese and half Hawaiian. 



No. 25: Father, Irish; mother, half 

 Chinese and half Hawaiian. 



A POLYNESIAN-NORWEGIAN METISSE 



The Editor. 



THE behavior of the Polynesian 

 stock, when crossed with a 

 Germanic one, is more plainly 

 shown in the accompanying 

 photograph by Miss Faast of a girl of 

 South Sea (Nauru) -Norwegian ancestry, 

 who is also included in the group 

 picture (No. 15). 



The Polynesian race, which is widely 

 scattered over the South Pacific, is a 

 comparatively late arrival, having 

 spread throughout the islands in suc- 

 cessive migrations since the Christian 

 era, and up to historic times — the 

 largest of these waves may have taken 

 rise in the fifth century. It is now 



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