Tshi Group. A group of Sudanese Negro tribes of the Guinea Coast, including the warlike Ashantis, Fantis and Adansis.
Tuaregs. The predatory [Berber] (q.v.) Nomads of the Sahara.
Tudas. See [DRAVIDIANS].
Tumalis. See [NUBA GROUP].
Tunguses. A branch of the Mongol stock of the Northern Mongolic family, who lead a nomad existence in the mountains of East Siberia and the Amur region. They are of Mongolic physical type, with square skulls, low stature, and wiry, well-knit figures. They are distinguished by fine moral qualities, a fearless race of hunters, industrious, trustworthy, and self-reliant. Their main tribes are the Lamuts, or “sea people,” Orochs, Chapogirs, Golds, and Tazis. The modern Tunguses probably represent the primitive stock of the [Manchus] (q.v.).
Tupi-Guarani. A wide-spread family of South American Indians, in Brazil, including numerous distinct tribes, of which the Chiriguanas of Bolivia, Caribunas of the Rio Negro, Paraguay Indians, Tupinambas of the Para coast, Mundrucus of the Tapajos, Omaguas, Goajiris and Tocantins, are the most important. They are copper-coloured, thick-set and muscular, with broad features, black hair and sometimes obliquely set eyes. They are of apathetic nature, and are slow to acquire civilisation.
Tupinambas. See [TUPI-GUARANI].
Turanian. An ethnological term, now abandoned, roughly corresponding to the Northern Mongolic or Ural-Altaic family.
Turguts. See [KALMUKS].
Turkanas. An African Hamitic race, allied to the [Masais] (q.v.), and dwelling between Lake Rudolf and the Nile.