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less. Between the stature, not gigantic but very tull, of the Pata- 

 gonians and the dwarf-like proportions of the Changes, we meet with 

 a host of intermediary ' sizes.' The proportions of the body present 

 the same diversity ; some peoples have the bust very long, like the 

 tribes of the Pampas ; others, short and broad, like the inhabitants 

 of the Peruvian Andes ; the same is the case with the shape and 



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:A. THE KED SKINS 



size of the head. Yet we recognize between the various American 

 populations an air of kinship, certain general features which dis- 

 tinguish them from the races of the Old World. Among these 

 features must be placed, in the front rank, the pyramidal form of the 

 head and the narrowness of the forehead characteristics of great 

 antiquity among the American populations, since they belong to 



