Browne — Ethnography of the Mullet, Inishkea, Sf Portacloy. 593 



Face. — The face is of medium length, with prominent cheek-bones, 

 and is rather broader in the bigonial region than observed in either 

 Aran or Inishbofin. 



The nose is short and has nearly always a straight profile ; of the 

 62 men measured, 50 had straight, 8 sinuous, 2 aquiline, and 2 

 retrousse noses. 



The wrinkles on the face are very deep, most so about the eyes 

 and at the "root" of the nose, where there is often a raised fold of 

 skin between two deep furrows. The mouth is large, with lips of 

 medium thickness, often kept habitually apart when the face is at 

 rest, but the large hanging lower lip is not so noticeable a character 

 here as in other localities of the west coast. 



The teeth are usually very shoit and even. 



The chin is prominent, but not long, and the angles of the jaw are 

 rather oblique. 



The eyes, which are placed moderately wide apart, have ii ides of a 

 light blue or bluish -gray, and being deep set and (in the fishermen) 

 habitually half closed, they present to a casual observer the appear- 

 ance of being small in size. 



The ears are small, projecting, and rather coarsely moulded. 

 Abnormalities of the lobule are common, and were seen in 33 out of 

 the 62 men on whom observations were made ; of these the lobule was 

 absent in 10, and attached in 23. Absence of the lobule is very 

 common in the northern part of the Mullet, and appears to be a local 

 character there ; in nearly all the men seen at Muingcrena this part 

 of the organ was either of very small size or was absent altogether. 

 Flattening out of the pinna and Darwinian tubercle were observed in 

 several cases. 



Skin. — Wrinkles, as before mentioned, come early, first appearing 

 about the eyes. 



The complexion is either ruddy or pale, rarely sallow ; on 

 exposure to the sun and wind it becomes a clear red, seldom 

 freckling or turning brown. 



Sair. — The prevailing colour for the hair is dark brown, next in 

 order of frequency is brown or chestnut, next black ; fair and red hair 

 are comparatively scarce. 



In the case of the Inishkea people, the most usual hair colour 

 seems to be a clear brown, accompanied by reddish-brown beard and 

 blue-grey eyes ; in these islands also, there is a larger proportion of fair 

 hair than on the mainland. The hair and beard (when worn) are 

 fairly abundant. Greyness does not appear to set in early. 



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