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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 72 



On the return trip a stop was made at Hawaii, and with the kind 

 assistance of the staff of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop INIuseum at 

 Honoluhi, and particularly of Dr. Gregory and Mr. Stokes, some 

 studies were carried out on the native Hawaiians in several of the 

 most favorable localities. It was found that the Hawaiians, even 



Fig. 87. — Chinese woman with artificially de- 

 formed feet, at Peking. This crippling deforma- 

 tion is still extensively practised by the Chinese. 

 A Chinese woman without deformed feet is not 

 regarded as " comme il faut." 



where free from historic admixture with whites or negroes, present 

 an old blend of several ethnic elements (yellow-brown, Indo-Euro- 

 pean, and Negro or Negrito) ; this blend, however, has already 

 reached a degree of approach to physical unity which permits the 

 student to deal with it as with a racial subvariety or subtype. But 

 this subtype is rapidly vanishing through new contacts. 



