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RACIAL ELEMENTS IN SWEDEN 



FOREIGN TYPES 



Fig. 10. 

 Swedish jew. 



Fig. 11. 



Swedish Walloon. 



Fig. 12. 



Gipsy=woman. 



Lapps on the contrary they appear more seldom. The brown colour of the eyes 

 is usual and appears most often among the Lapps and comparatively seldom 

 among the Swedes and Finns. 



The mixed eyes are not frequent among the Lapps and in a still smaller 

 degree among the Finns and least of all among the Swedes. For more particu* 

 lars see the diagram itself. 



Smaller groups of other races besides these three chief components, the Nor 

 die, the Finnish and the Lappish races, appear also in Sweden; they may be sum* 

 marised briefly. 



Walloons came from Belgium during the seventeenth century to improve the 

 Swedish iron industry. They settled near the great ironworks in East Gothaland 

 (Ostergotland), Uppland, Varmland and Bergslagen. They are represented mostly 

 by a dark type. Even they are for the most part of short stature, thickset growth, 



DIAGRAM CONCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT COLOURED 

 EYES AMONG DIFFERENT RACE.GROUPS IN SWEDEN. 



The examinations, performed by the author, comprise all persons, of both sexes and of all ages, 



living in a certain district. 



SWEDES IN VARMLAND SWEDISH NOMADIC LAPPS FINNS IN NORRBOTTEN 



(558 individuals) (463 individuals) (660 individuals) 



Brown 



Mixed 



Light 



