Kamchadales. A Siberian branch of the Northern Mongolic family, inhabiting Kamchatka; a hardy race of hunters and fishers.
Kanakas. A name given to South Sea Islanders, generally by sailors and traders, and especially to Polynesian labourers imported to Queensland.
Kanakas, or Bakanaka. Negro aborigines of Angola, probably akin to the Bushmen. Other similar tribes are the Korokas, Kulabes, Kwandes and Kwisses.
Kanarese. Mongoloid aborigines of Mysore in India. See [DRAVIDIANS].
Kanembu, Kanuris. See [LAKE CHAD GROUP].
Kara-Kalpaks, or Black Bonnets. A branch of the Turki stock of the Northern Mongolic family, dwelling on the south-east of the Aral Sea and in the Oxus basin. A pacific pastoral race, dominated by their warlike relatives, the nomadic Kirghiz, and now subject to Russia.
Kara-Kirghiz. See [KIRGHIZ].
Karelians. An Eastern branch of Baltic Finns dwelling in the eastern parts of Finland and adjoining provinces of Russia. Probably a Slavo-Mongolic mixture in which the original Mongolic element has been largely eliminated.
Karens. Inhabitants of Burma, of the Indo-Chinese branch of the Southern Mongolic family. Largely Christianised. Formerly oppressed by the Burmans, than whom they are less clever, but more industrious. Agriculturists.
Karons. A Negrito race of New Guinea, of very degraded type, and addicted to cannibalism.