Crania Ægyptiaca: Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the MonumentsMorton, Samuel George
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Crania Ægyptiaca: Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments
Morton, Samuel George
Craniology -- Egypt; Ethnology -- Egypt
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[Illustration:
Pl. XIII.
_M. S. Weaver del._
FROM A TOMB AT DEBOD IN NUBIA.
Lith. of T. Sinclair, Phil^a.
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[Illustration:
Pl. XIV.
_Drawn from Rossellini by R. H. Kern._ _On stone by M. S. Weaver_
_Figs. 1. to 18._ (inclusive) _Portraits of the Kings and Queens of
Egypt._
_Figs. 19. to 24._ (inclusive) _People of various Nations._
_Lith. of T. Sinclair, Phil^a._
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FOOTNOTES
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Footnote 1:
I do not use this term with ethnographic precision; but merely to
indicate the most perfect type of cranio-facial outline.
Footnote 2:
Explorations at the Pyramids, Vol. III., p. 44.
Footnote 3:
The letters I. C., denote the internal capacity of the cranium.—F.
A., the Facial Angle. The skulls of persons under sixteen or
eighteen years of age are seldom measured, and never admitted into
the computations of this memoir.
Footnote 4:
It will be observed, on comparing this table with the original one
published in the _Proceedings_ of the Society for December, 1842,
(and since republished in Mr. Gliddon’s _Ancient Egypt_,) that there
is a great difference in the relative number of Pelasgic and
Egyptian heads; which fact has been already adverted to, and
explained, (page 4.) I have been governed in the present
classification, by the manifest presence of the Egyptian
physiognomy, even in those instances in which it appears to be
blended with an equal and even preponderating Pelasgic character. It
will be observed, however, that _the whole number of Caucasian
heads_ is nearly the same in both tables; and that the relative
proportion of Semitic, Negro and Negroid crania is unaltered.
Footnote 5:
Lawrence’s Lectures on Zoology, &c., p. 347.
Footnote 6:
Decas Quarta, p. 6.
Footnote 7:
Lawrence, ut supra, eighth edition, p. 325.
Footnote 8:
Description de L’Egypte, Antiq. II., pl. 49, 50.
Footnote 9:
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