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xxxvir. 



THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE MULLET, INISHKEA 



ISLANDS, AND PORTACLOY, COUNTY MAYO. 



Bt CHARLES R. BROWNE M.D., M.R.I.A. 



(Plates XV., XVI., and XVII.) 



[Read February 25, 1895.] 



CONTENTS. 







PAGE 







PAGE 



I. — Introduction, . . .587 



III.- 



—Anthropography — continued. 



II. — Physiography of the 





(c) Language and Illi- 





DISTRICT, . . . 588 





teracy, . 



610 







(d) Health, . 



611 



II. — Anthropography : — 







1. Methods, . . .589 





4. Psychology, . 



613 







5. Folk-names, . 



616 



(a) Hair and Eye Colour, 590 









(b) Measurements and 



IV.- 



—Sociology : — 





Instruments, . 590 





1. Occupations, . 



619 



(c) Eemarks on Methods 





2. Family-life and Customs, 



621 



employed, . . 590 





3. Food, . 



624 



(d) Photography, . .591 





4. Clothing, 



625 







5. Dwellings, 



626 



2. (a) Physical Characters, 592 





6. Transport, 



628 



(b) Statistics of Hair and 







Eye Colours, . . 596 



V.- 



-FOLK-LoRE, 



629 



(c) Physical Proportions, 599 





1 . Customs and Beliefs, 



630 



(d) Detailed List of Mea- 





2. Charms and Leechcraft, . 



634 



surements and In- 





3. Legends and Traditions, 



637 



dices, . . . 600 



VI.- 



-Archeology : — 





(e) Analysis of Statistical 





1. Survivals, 



639 



Tahles, . . .606 





2. Antiquities, . 



640 



3. Vital Statistics (General 



VII.- 



-History, .... 



644 



and Economic) — 









(a) Population, . . 606 



A^II.- 



-Concluding Remarks, 



646 



(b) Acreage and Eental, 608 



IX.- 



-Bibliography, . 



648 



I. iNTEf 



DUCTIOn. 





In continuance of the series of local surveys undertaken by the Dublin 

 Anthropometric Committee and carried out as part of the work of the 

 Anthropological Laboratory of Trinity College, the third of these 

 surveys was made by me last August in the western portion of the 



