Namas or Namaquas. A Hottentot tribe of Namaqualand, the true aborigines and the principal representatives of the [Hottentots] (q.v.). Scattered in small pastoral groups.
Natchez Indians. An extinct North American Indian race, formerly inhabiting the region of the Lower Mississippi.
Navajos. See [ATHABASCAN].
Neanderthal Man. A race of primitive man, represented only by a skull and a few bones found in a limestone cave of the Neanderthal in Rhenish Prussia in 1856. The most ape-like race yet known, and probably the oldest.
Negritoes. A branch of Ethiopic Man, found in Central Africa, and in the Andamans, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines, akin to negroes but of smaller stature and more ape-like. Possibly the primitive stock from which the [Negroes] (q.v.) were developed.
Negroes. The most numerous branch of Ethiopic Man, divided into African (Sudanese, Bantu, and Hottentot-Bushman) and Oceanic (Papuan, Melanesian, and Australian) sections. American Negroes are descended from African slaves, mostly of Sudanese origin. See [HAYTIANS].
Nempés. See [NIGERIAN GROUP].
Nestorians. A Syrian race, belonging to the Aramæan stock of the Semitic family, distinguished by a special form of Christian belief, who were driven out of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, and whose descendants now form a special community in the mountain ranges of Kurdistan. They are poor and illiterate. A branch of Nestorians is found in Travancore, where they go by the name of Syrian Christians.
New Guinea Natives. See [PAPUANS].
New Zealanders. (1) Aborigines [see [MAORIS]]. (2) White inhabitants of New Zealand, of Anglo-Saxon descent.