NEGRO-UTE METIS 



ABOVE— NEGRO-UTE HALF-BLOODS. BELOW— PURE-BLOOD UTES 



The accompanying photographs were taken by the writer at the time of a visit, 

 in April, 1910, to the Southern Ute reservation in southwestern Colorado, in the 

 company of John P. Harrington of the School of American Archeology at Santa 

 Fe, New Mexico. The picture of greatest anthropological interest is the upper 

 one, portraying, as it does, a not very common instance (in that region, at least) 

 of race mixture. The boy and girl are brother and sister, children of a Negro 

 father and full-blood Ute mother. They live on the farm allotted by the govern- 

 ment to the mother. The Negro characters are most apparent. Some features, 

 however, especially the hair, show Indian influence. The hair, particularly that 

 of the girl, recalls a type found among many of the Oceanic blacks. The skin has 

 the distinctively Negro chocolate color. For comparison, I present, below it, the 

 picture of two typical Ute girls. The four children are of about the same age, and 

 were all pupils in the day-school a few miles north of Ignacio agency. — Albert N. 

 Gilbertson (Universitv of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.), in American An- 

 thropologist, n. s., 15, p. 363, (1913). (Fig. 7.) 



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