

ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA G7 



type : individually there are crania of Cro-Magnon 

 type and of an infinite number of other types but it is 

 all an illusion due to the metamorphism which has taken 

 place. In whatever part of the habitable globe such a 

 process has been proved to have taken place Pycraft 

 has ultimately selected Dutch New Guinea there results 

 a similar pseudo-zoological hotch-potch, when one con- 

 siders the individual resemblances brought out by the 

 profile of a cranium. Even for morphological analysis 

 one needs " the grain of salt," which is easily lost when 

 one follows the main road of the migrations by sea dear 

 to Elliot Smith. 



We need not occupy ourselves with them, although 

 we hold that the Indonesians and the Polynesians are 

 off-shoots of the yellow stock, who by their insular resi- 

 dence have become distinct species or sub-species. 



In the interior of the Asiatic continent the centre of 

 propulsion of the ethnic movements appears to be situated 

 in the north. The Shu who later were called the Chinese, 

 lived in ancient times in the upper valley of the Yellow 

 River, but their traditions place the cradle of their race 

 more to the N.W. The classical work denominated Shan 

 Hai King, written not later than 1122 B.C., shows that 

 the Chinese of that epoch referred always to the N.W. as 

 the country of their ancestors and demigods. In this 

 same region there was somewhere a country of " white 

 men " : the marvellous country of the mythical ancestors 

 is beyond the " North Western " Sea. Williams 

 believes that it refers to Kokonor; but there are 

 other lakes of the same and even larger dimensions (e.g., 

 Issik-Kul and Balkash which is very large) towards 

 Thiansan and Zungaria, which are really the regions to 

 the N.W. of China : a lake larger than the present Lob- 

 nor occupied probably the depression in which the Tarim 

 flows, ft is useless to insist on what, for the time at 



