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XYII. 



THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF INISHBOFIK AND INISHSHARK, 

 COUNTY GALWAY. By CHARLES R. BROWNE, B.A., 

 M.D., M.R.I. A., of the Anthropological Laboratory, Trinity 

 College, Dublin. (Plates VIII. and IX.) 



[Read November 30, 1893.] 



CONTENTS. 



I. — Intro DtrcTioN, 



II. — Physiography 



Islands, 



PAGE 



. 317 



318 



III. — Anthropography : — 



1. Methods, . . .320 



(a) Hair and Eye Colour, 321 



(b) Measurements, . 321 



(c) Instruments used, . 321 



(d) Remarks on Methods 



employed, . . 321 



(e) Photography, . . 322 



(a) Physical Characters, 



(b) Statistics of Hair and 



Eye Colour, 



(c) Detailed List of Mea- 



surements, . 



(d) Proportional Mea- 



surements, 



(e) Crania, . 



322 



324 



328 



334 

 334 



Vital Statistics (General 

 and Economic) — 



(a) Population, . . 338 



(b) Acreage and Rental, 339 



III. — Anthropography — continued. 



(c) Language and Illi- 



teracy, . . .341 



(d) Lonaevity, . . 341 



(e) Health, . . .342 



4. Psychology, . . . 344 



5. Folk-names, . . ■ . 345 



6. Language, . . .347 

 IV. — Sociology: — 



Occupations, 



347 



Family-life and Customs, 351 



Food, .... 353 



Clothing, . . . 354 



Divellings, . . . 355 

 Transport, . . .356 



V. — Folk-lore, . . . 357 



1. Customs and Beliefs, . 359 



2. Legends and Traditions, 360 



VI. — ARCHiEOLOGY: 



1. Survivals, . . . 362 



2. Antiquities, . . . 363 

 vii.^ — History, .... 365 



viii. — Ethnology, . . . 368 



IX. — Bibliography, . . . 369 



I . — Inteodttction-. 



In pursuance of the plan adopted by the Dublin Anthropometric 

 Committee of combining the ordinary work of the Laboratory with 

 local investigation in selected parts of the country, and first tried last 

 year in the Ethnographic Expedition to the Aran Islands, I, this 

 autumn, made the second local inquiry, the field chosen being the 

 islands of Inishbofin and Inishshark, Co. Galway. 



