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PRINCIPAL SIR WILLIAM TURNER ON 



The hair in each specimen was distinctly woolly, though longer in the man than 

 in the woman, and the individuality of the lock was more distinct. The locks were 

 recognisably smaller than in the negro. 



Hottentots. — Hair from four Hottentot women. Each specimen had been dressed 





Fig. 16. — Hottentot with plaited locks. 



in artificially three-plaited locks. They varied in length from 6 cm. (2"3 inches) to 

 30 cm. (llf inches). The broadest lock was dishevelled at the end cut from the scalp, 

 where it was 3 cm. broad ; this was succeeded by the plaited part 5 '8 cm. long, which 



Fig. 17.— Zulu Kaffir. 



at first was 1*5 cm. broad, but at the free end, where the plaiting ceased, was only 

 8 mm. broad (fig. 1 6). The individual hairs were curly but not definitely spiral. 

 The colour was rich black in all these specimens, except in one which was dark 

 brown in colour, slender in its whole length and about 4 mm. broad. The longest 

 lock was of almost equal breadth, 7 mm., throughout its entire length. 



