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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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slightly varying limits trasts with & ■> J & Red Indians. the complexions of all theraces of this family may be defined. An-other general feature is the straight, There is another particular in whichan analagous difference may be noted,and that is the relatively flatter facesof the aborigines of the southern conti-nent. The latter peoples have also I greater symmetry and regularity of thefeatures as a whole. There is little of i that haughty and hawk-like expression
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rsEDCHAMI.EI dead-black hair which is common to allthe Amazonians and the Guaranis. Theeyes are uniformly black, and the beardis scant or wholly wanting. In the eyesof some of the tribes there is a slightlifting of the outer angle from the hori-zontal position. The cheek bones differconsiderably in the degree of projection,but this feature is much less conspicuousthan in the North American Indians. which marks the physiognomy of theNorth American natives. In symmetryof person it were hard to assign the palmas between the Amazonians and our wildIndians. The former, by their lowergeographical level, have escaped the ab-normal chest development which char-acterizes the Andeans. In the womenthe narrow waist appears, and the gen-eral outline is as symmetrical as might S(? (TT1I AMERICANS.—G IA RA XI-BRAZILTANS. 599 be demanded by the somewhat artificialstandards of Europe. This description of the ethnic qual-ities of the Tupis belongs rather to thepeoples of the eastern part of the con-t

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