ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS 281 



dolichocephalic — 10.26. Brachycephalic men (cephalic index 

 84 and upward), were found among the dark-haired, 24.34 per- 

 cent, and among the blonds, the percentage was much larger, 

 27.91 percent. This does not confirm the observations of Majer 

 and Kopernicki ^ who found that among the brunette Jews in 

 Galicia 6.2 percent are dolichocephalic, as against 20 percent of 

 the blond Jews being of this type of head-form. This has often 

 been quoted in support of the theory that the blond Jews have 

 their origin in " Indo-Germanic " infusion. 



The relation of the color of the eyes and the head-form is 

 seen from the following table : 



Table L. 

 Color of the Eyes and Head-Form. 



Type of Head-Form. 





Color of the Eyes. 





Blue. 



Gray. 



Dark. 



Hyperdolichocephalic 



3.26 



7-69 

 12.13 



26.63 

 24.26 



18.93 

 7.10 



338 



3.08 

 7.20 



1465 

 24.17 

 24.94 

 14.14 

 11.82 



389 



2.50 

 7.61 



Dolichocephal ic 



Subdol i chocephalic 



16.98 



Mesocephalic 



26.34 



23-35 



15-73 



7-94 



Subbrachycephalic 



Brachycephalic 



Hyperbrachycephalic 



Number observed 



801 









The average cephalic index was found in the 



Blue-eyed individuals 8 1 . 43 



Gray-eyed individuals 81.58 



Dark-eyed individuals 81.96 



which is almost identical in the three classes. From the above 

 table we also see that the percentage of dolichocephalic Jews 

 was among the blue-eyed, 10.95 ; in gray-eyed, 10.28, and in 

 the black and brown-eyed, 10.21, about the same in every 

 group. Of brachycephalics we found among blue-eyed Jews, 

 26.03 percent; among gray-eyed, 25.96, and among dark-eyed, 

 23.22 percent. This again shows that dark-eyed individuals 

 are like dark-haired Jews, less brachycephalic than fair-eyed 

 Jews. 



^Loc. cit., pt. I, p. 132. 



