lOG 
The Ttihabitcmfs of the Eastern Mediterranean 
could make a distinction between the Southern and Northern Maniots. If our 
figures are correct we get three groups, (1) Albania and Cyprus, (2) Meligala and 
Mani, (3) Crete. In order to make the figures comparable they have been reduced 
to percentages removing all white haired people. 
Hair Colour Percentages. 
Albania 
Cyprus 
Crete 
Meligala 
Mani 
Fair 
5-1 
3-20 
10 
15 
12 
Brown 
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56-16 
17 
36 
30-5 
Black ... 
40-9 
40-64 
74 
48 
57-5 
A point which deserves special attention is that although Cyprus and Albania 
contain the least amount of dark hair they also contain the least fair hair ; the 
Cretans, although the greater proportion of them have dark hair (Braun-schwarz 
and Schwarz), do not contain the least amount of fair hair. The personal equation 
of the observers should perhaps be considered responsible for the divergency but 
the Albanian observer also belonged to v. Luschan's school as well as the observers 
for Crete and the Peloponnese and Messenia. 
Eye Colour Percentages. 
Albania 
Cyprus 
Crete 
Meligala 
Mani 
Blue 
10-20 
9-58 
5-3 
9-1 
6 
Intermediate 
48-20 
39-02 
25-4 
33-3 
36-5 
Brown 
41-60 
51-40 
69-3 
57-6 
57-5 
Taking the eye colour we get rather a similar grouping, Albania and Cyprus 
being the most clearly allied and the Cretans who had the largest number of 
persons with dark hair have the smallest proportion of blue eyes. 
There are two points of special importance to which attention should be 
drawn. First the number of blue-eyed persons occurring in some parts of the 
Greek world. In Albania and Cyprus about one man in ten has blue eyes and even 
in dark Crete one man in twenty. To take a practical example one would meet 
a blue-eyed man in Crete or the Peloponnese rather more frequently than one 
would meet a red-headed man in Oxford. The fact however that there appears to 
be such a difference in the distribution of blue eyes would possibly account for 
the blue-eyed tribes of classical times. 
The second point of importance is that pigmentation does clearly divide up the 
two branches of the Alpine peoples. Among v. Luschan's Lycian gypsies every 
person examined ha,s brown eyes and dark hair. How far this is a correct estimate 
it is difficult to decide as it is not quite in agreetnent with Twarjanowitsch's results 
from Armenia where he finds a population with a cephalic index of 86-89, and with 
70 having the eyes brown and the hair black — a close resemblance to Crete ! 
