294 FORMS OF THE SKULL. 



too, according to the best descriptions and delineations in 

 NoRDEN, VoLNEY, Denon, and others, is the countenance 

 of the great sphinx at Gizeh, and of many other ancient 

 works of Egyptian art. The Egyptians themselves, accord- 

 ing to the well-known passage of Herodotus *, had these 

 characters : and Lucian f gives a similar description of a 

 young Egyptian at Rome J. 



" Ethiopian form must be here understood in that wide 

 acceptation which we give to the expression ' Ethiopian 

 race,"* in tlie arrangement of the human species ; and not in 

 the more marked but narrower sense of what the English 

 call the true Guinea face. Indeed, the physiological cha- 

 racters of the Negro, taken in a general sense, are as loosely 

 defined as his geographical description: for, among Negroes, 

 there are several who, in smoothness of the hair and general 

 beauty of form, excel many Europeans. 



" A complete contrast to this Ethiopian form is presented 

 in the Hindoo-like character of other old remains, which 

 consists of a long slender nose, long and narrow aperture 

 of the eye-lids running upwards to the temple, ears placed 

 high on the head, short and slender trunk, and long legs. 

 The female figure on the back of Capt. Lethieullier's 

 mummy in the British Museum is a characteristic repre- 

 sentation of this form, and accords entirely with the well- 

 known national make of the Hindoos. 



of Copts by Denon, Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte; pi. 105. No. ii., 

 pi. 108. No. ii. and iii. ; nor in those of the great Description de VEgypte ; 

 see Etat Moderne^ vol. ii. Costumes and Portraits. Neither have I siic- 

 ceeded in discovering representations of Negroes among the almost number- 

 less sculptures of the ancient buildings represented in both these works. The 

 human figures are marked by traits of a form altogether different. 



♦ He argues that the Colchlans must have been a colony of Egyptians, be- 

 cause they were uiT^oiy^oBq v.aX o^XoTpi^e? — black-skinned and woolly-haired. 

 Lib. ii. 



+ Navigium, S. Vota ; c. ii. 



% Blumenbach refers in a note to two figures with marked Negro form ; 

 one is engraved as a vignette to the preface of his Contributions, part ii ; and 

 the other is described by P. a S. BARTH0L0ivi2B0,in his Mumiographia Obici- 

 nna, p. 51. 



