GROUPING OF THE HUMAN RACES ACCORDING TO THEIR AFFINITIES.
IV. 6. The Australian race (Figs. [14], [15], [149], and [150]) is remarkable for its unity and its isolation on the Australian continent, and even the Tasmanians (see [Chapter XII.]), the nearest neighbours to the Australians, at the present day extinct, had a different type.
V. 7. The Dravidian race, which it would have been better to call South-Indian, is prevalent among the peoples of Southern India speaking Dravidian tongues, and also among the Kols and other peoples of India; it presents two varieties or sub-races, according to Schmidt:[332] a, leptorhinean, thin nose, very elongated head (Nairs, etc.); b, platyrhinean, with very broad nose and a somewhat shorter head (Dravidians properly so called, Figs. [8], [126], and [127]). The Veddahs (Figs. [5], [6], and [133]) come much nearer to the Dravidian type, which moreover penetrates also among the populations of India, even into the middle valley of the Ganges.
VI. 8. The Assyroid race, so named because it is represented in a very clear manner on the Assyrian monuments, is not found pure in any population, but it counts a sufficient number of representatives to give a character to entire populations, such as the Hadjemi-Persians (Fig. [22]), the Ayssores, certain Kurdish tribes, and some Armenians and Jews. The characteristic Jewish nose of caricature, in the form of the figure 6, is an Assyroid nose; it is almost always associated with united eyebrows and thick lower lip. The Todas (Fig. [130]) partly belong, perhaps, to this type.
VII. 9. The Indo-Afghan race (see [Chapter X.]) has its typical representatives among the Afghans, the Rajputs, and in the caste of the Brahmins, but it has undergone numerous alterations as a consequence of crosses with Assyroid, Dravidian, Mongol, Turkish, Arab, and other elements (Figs. [125] and [134]).
VIII. The North African group is composed, 10, of the Arab or Semite race, represented by typical individuals among the Arabs and certain Jews (Fig. [21]), the features of which are often found in most of the populations of Syria, Mesopotamia, Beloochistan (Fig. [134]), Egypt, and the Caucasus; 11, of the Berber race (Fig. [136]), which admits four varieties or “types,” according to Collignon (see [Chapter XI.]).