576 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 
to form an exact opinion as to how far these invaders could influence 
the somatic characters of the old Hittite population. 
I give here (pl. 10) the portraits of a later king of Samal, Barrekub, 
from about 730 B. C., and of his queen. The king has certainly 
not a Hittite profile, and he might well himself be of Semitic origin, 
but probably a great number of his subjects had preserved the old 
Hittite characteristics, and even the queen herself looks as she were 
not quite without Hittite blood. 
For the present population of northern Syria, as well as of all 
western Asia, our anthropometric tables show evidence that this old 
type is still extant in a high percentage among the actual inhabitants. 
Only as to the primordial home of the Hittites, or however else we 
may term all these hypsi- and brachycephalic people with the high 
and narrow nose, is there some difficulty. The ‘Alpine race”’ of 
central Europe is certainly somehow related to or connected with 
them and a priori it is not easy to determine if the Hittites came from 
central Kurope or if the ‘Alpine race” came from western Asia. I 
do not know if the first possibility has many champions left now. If 
so, they might certainly lay stress on the fact that the modern 
Armenians and the modern Persians, both typical ‘‘ Hittites,” are 
now speaking Aryan languages, but we know how often ethnic 
groups change their language entirely without losing their somatic 
type, and we can in this special case well imagine that early precursors 
of the xanthochroic Kurds and their relations may have brought 
their Aryan language to the old Armenians and Persians without being 
able to impress their somatic type upon them. 
We should not forget, too, that Europe is only a small peninsular. 
annexe to Asia, and that there are infinitely more typical ‘‘ Hittites” 
in western Asia than there are in Europe. It seems surer, therefore, 
to locate the cradle of the Hittites in Asia, where we find extreme 
brachycephals as far to the east as Burma and Siam and the Malay 
Archipelago. 
We could then also understand how the essential somatic difference 
between the Hittites and the other brachycephalic Asiatics—their 
high and narrow nose—originated as a merely accidental mutation 
and was then locally fixed, either by a certain tendency of taste and 
fashion or by long, perhaps millennial, inbreeding. The “ Hittite 
nose” has finally become a dominant characteristic in the Mendelian 
sense, and we see it, not only in the actual geographical province of 
the Alpine race, but often enough also here in England. Certainly, 
similar noses may originate everywhere, quite independently of the 
1 Typical portraits of Hittite divinities, excavated at Sendjirli, are here reproduced on pls. 8and 9, and 
the rock sculpture of Ibriz (ef. here pl. 9) shows a Hittité god and king, both with extreme ‘‘Jewishness.”’ 
On Egyptian monuments Hittites are always figured with a profile like the modern Armenian (pl. 2). 
The young ‘“‘ Kurd’? Sulo (pl. 2), also belongs to this group; his mother, whose type he has inherited, is 
an Armenian woman. 
