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of the American people derives its origin from them: 

 for among their paintings and carved work, representing 

 gods and heroes, we see personages dancing with human 

 heads slung to the waist, like modern Dyaks ; we observe 

 ensigns of feathers, stuck in sheaths at the back, like the 

 Malays of Java; and masks, tomahawks, shields, sword 

 handles, and spears adorned, in a similar manner, with 

 human hair and tufts of feathers. We refer to the figures 

 in Captain Keppel's voyage, and in the late Dutch pub- 

 lications on their Indian possessions. 



PLATE X. 



The character of lank hair is universal in the beard- 

 less races, and the presence of Caucasian blood scarcely 

 marked by a somewhat more ruddy complexion, and slight 

 beard in the Niuchi, Mongol, and Eleuth. 



PLATE XI. 



Yet the eyes of Kinto Moey and Yuchi clans, remain- 

 ing in the north-east of China and Tahtary, as well as their 

 occasional ample beards, prove that they are Caucasians, 

 with but little adulteration of Mongolic blood ; for those 

 from Canton, northward and westward, have the gland of 

 the eye covered by the lid and eyelash turning over it, 

 which increases to its maximum among the black Kalmucks, 

 whose eyes are turned obliquely downwards more than any 

 other race, and whose skin is not yellow but ashy. 



PLATE XII. 



Reverting to the Caucasian type, we here give three 

 antique profiles of the high nosed or conquering variety of 



