BIMANA. 



Tartaric branch, or to be a mixed people, between the Tartars and the 

 Sclavonians. In physical characters, the Tartaric nations may be re- 

 garded as intermediate between the Japetic and Mongole stocks of the 

 human race. Their form is robust and athletic, with the lower limbs 

 short and bowed ; their complexion is deep olive ; the upper part of 

 the face is broad and flat ; the eyes are small, deeply set, and remote 

 from each other ; the eyelids are thick ; the nose is depressed, and often 

 apparent only by the nasal orifices, which seem as if isolated, in a face 

 wrinkled and furrowed, even in youth ; the cheek-bones are very promi- 

 nent ; the hair is long, straight, and black ; the eyebrows are bushy ; 

 the beard is thick, especially on the upper lip. The whole of the physi- 

 ognomy is repulsive. 



The preceding skull of a Kirguise (fig, 186) is from the Decades of 

 Blumenbach (tab. xiii.) The breadth and flatness of the upper part of 

 the face are very conspicuous ; as is also the prominence of the zygo- 

 matic arches : the forehead is narrower than in most skulls of the Mon- 

 gole race ; the orbits are deeper, and with a more frowning superciliary 

 ridge ; the glabella is protuberant ; the nasal ridge is narrower and more 

 elevated than in the Mongole. The skull of a Don Cossack (fig. 187), 

 from the same work (tab. iv.), is also very remarkable : " Habitus in 

 totum horridus," is the expression of Blumenbach, and with justice : the 

 orbits are very deep, broad, and depressed ; the aperture of the nose is 

 broadly patulous ; the superciliary ridges meet at the glabella, which has 

 no smooth hollow, and are boldly prominent ; the external orbitar pro- 

 cesses are salient, and the marginal rim, sweeping from them, and bounding 

 the temporal muscle, forms an acute ridge ; the angle of the lower jaw 



is turned outward, and is rough with 

 the marks of the masseter muscle ; 

 the occipital foramen is narrow ; 

 the thickness of the occipital bone is 

 enormous ; and the whole skull is 

 of marble-like denseness and polish : 

 " Hinc et pondus universi cranii 

 augens." 



The skull of a Tartar (fig. 188), 

 from Blumenbach's Decades (tab. 

 xii.), is remarkable for its elegant 

 development, and the general sym- 

 metry of its form, which approaches 

 the best models of the Japetic stock, 

 having little of the repulsiveness of the skull of the Don Cossack, 

 or of the breadth and flatness of the upper part of the face, so remark- 

 able in the Kirguise. 



Skull of Tartar. 



