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(P. 19.) The Klamath face is a little less broad than that on the Sacra- 

 mento; in early manhood nearly as oval as the American; cheek bones 

 large and round-capped, but not too prominent; head brachycephalic ; eyes 

 bright, moderately well sized, and freely opened straight across the face; nose 

 thick-walled and broad, straight as the Grecian, nares ovoid, root not so de- 

 pressed as in the Sacramento Valley ; forehead low and wide, nearly on a perpen- 

 dicular line with the chin ; color ranging from hazel or buff-hazel to old bronze, 



and almost to black (Pp. 19 and 20.) With their smooth, hazel skins, 



nearly oval faces, full and brilliant eyes, some of the young women — barring 

 the tattooed chins — have a piquant and splendid beauty. 



[The Yurok.] — Living nearer the coast, they are several shades darker than 

 the Karok, frequently almost black; and they are not so fine a race, having 

 lower foreheads and more projecting chins. On the coast they incline to be 

 pudgy in stature, though on the Klamath there are many specimens of splendid 

 savagery. Like all California women their mohelas (a Spanish word of general 

 use) are rather handsome in their free and untoiling youth .... (p. 44). 



Portraits of Yurok women (figs. 2 and 3), and all other portraits 

 of the Californians in the book, show purely Indian features. 



[The Chillula.]— Like most of the coast tribes they are very dark-colored, 

 squat in stature, rather fuller-faced than the interior Indians. (P. 87.) 



[The Gallinomero.] — May be considered a branch of the great family of the 



Pomo They are nearly black, Ventura being the blackest of all ; and on 



a warm, sunny day in February when he is chopping wood briskly his cuticle 

 shines like that of a Louisiana field-hand. The nose is moderately high, straight 

 and emphatic, with thick walls, and ovoid or nearly round nares ; lips rather 

 thick and sensual; forehead low, but nearly perpendicular with the chin; face 

 rounder and flatter than in the Atlantic Indian; eyes well-sized and freely 

 opened straight across the face, with a sluggish but foxy expression; color 

 varying from old bronze or brown almost to black. (P. 174 et seq.) 



[The Achoviaim (Pit River Indians)]. — The faces are broad and black and 

 calm, and shining with an Ethiopian unctuousness ; the foreheads are like a 

 wall ; in those solid, round-capped cheek-bones, standing over against one another 

 so far apart, and in those massive lower jaws, there is unmistakable strength, 



bred in the bone thrbugh tranquil generations Here is a hearty and a 



lusty savagery which it is pleasant to see. (P. 267 et seq.) 



[In general.] — Physically considered the California Indians are superior to 

 the Chinese, at least to those brought over to America. (P. 401.) 



There is no word in Power's work likening the people to Negroes, 

 African or Melanesian ; nor is there any trace in the text or the illus- 

 trations of wavy or curly hair, or of anything else that would suggest 

 aught but Indian. 



