ANTHROPOLOGY OK ASIA 



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SUMMARY IV. 



Tribes of the Southern Deecati. 



Whoever has any experience oi ? figures knows that 

 such a high average cannot he obtained without a 

 certain percentage of brachycephals. 



As regards the rise in the cephalic index that is 

 observed in a still more remarkable degree in Beluchis- 

 tan (cf. Table V) we have suggested, while speaking 

 of the Indo-Iranian variety, that brachycephal individuals 

 may belong, either to the Pamirian variety, as is probably 

 the case with the Chhutas and the Bandijas, or to the Altaic 

 variety, as we have demonstrated for the Hazaras, who 

 are more to the north (Afghanistan). The influences of 

 Central Asia accepted by Ilisley 1 are too vague and 

 the denomination of " Turco-Iranian type" adopted by 



1 Tlte People of India, up. cit., p. (50. 



