THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF POLISH ORIGIN IN TEXAS 



BOLESLAW ROSINSKI 



Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Lwow, Poland 



An investigation of Polish immigrants and their descendants in Texas 

 was undertaken by me in 1929 and 1930. There are two kinds of Polish 

 settlers in Texas : immigrants from Silesia living principally in the environ- 

 ment of St. Antonio and immigrants from southwestern Poland living in the 

 North of Texas. In the environment of St. Antonio I have examined the 

 Polish settlers from Panna Maria, Kosciusko, Hobson, Cestohova, St. 

 Hedwig and Yorktown. In north Texas the polish settlers from Eremond 

 and Marlin were examined also by me. The whole material embraces 320 

 families. 



This work is based principally on the material from the environment of 

 St. Antonio, where there were subjected to anthropological investigation 

 425 men and 418 women. According to the results of these studies the two 

 following questions will be answered: 



1. To what anthroplogical types do the immigrants born abroad and 

 their descendants born in Texas belong? 



2. What anthropological difference is there between the people born in 

 the old country and the people born in Texas? 



The anthropological investigation, the subject of which were the Euro- 

 pean people, had established among them ten different anthropological 

 components, four of which belong to the fundamental elements and the 

 other six should be considered as secondary types formed by crossing of the 

 fundamental elements. 1 The anthropological elements are: the Nordic, 

 the Laponoid, the Armenoid and the Mediterranean. The secondary types 

 are: the North- Western, the Subnordic, the Preslav, the Alpine, the Dinaric 

 and the Litoral. 



The anthropological composition of Polish immigrants in Texas is illus- 

 trated in table 1. 



As it was stated, we have distinguished among the population of Europe 

 the fundamental elements and the secondary types formed by crossing of 

 the former, namely: the northwestern type is derived of the Nordic and the 



1 Czekanowski, J. Das Typenfrequenzgesetz. Anthr. Anz., 1928, B. V. 



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