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Show .JSt tNafl -.ijatfj OF THE EAST AND WEST. Skulls of Japanese!, Show Race Mor. Monao"an"T,ian Caucasian. Tho Japancso typo Is lntcrmcdlato between tho Caucasian and tho Mongolian, Mon-golian, and, though It kIiowb many gradations, it Isjton tho whole, much nearer the lattcjrjttmn tho (armor. Tho 'most striking peculiarity of tho Mongolian Mon-golian Bkull sithbRrcat devplopment oi tho upper 'J0110- Th front of fJ4l I Kuroiicoii. II. Ainu, 111 Mongolian (Kalmuck). IV. Jnpancic tfau i Inn tPL-) V. JannncseJiQtvnnr-ulato typti VI. Jnpnncao (MongoUaa-lypc) tho face is broad and Hat, and the transition from tho front to tho side Is sudden, not gradual, as In tho Euro-poan. Euro-poan. Tho bridge of tho nose Is low and broad, and this' produces tho peculiar obllqufe "Mongolian fold" In tho upper oyolld, which makes the oyo appear to slant moro than It does In reality. Wo havo, then, In the Alnus a primitive prim-itive race, very closely akin to tho Caucaslou, tho blending of which Mongolian elements must have produced pro-duced in Japan types similar to tho other white and yellow crosses which wo call Mnlays. Tho history of Japan proves that the Morigqllan element was Introduced not all at once, but by successive infusions. It came through China and Korea, and had probably nsslrallatod foreign elements on tho way. - Tho .Japancso language Bhows not a trace of Malayan origin, though physical kinship can hardly oxfst without somo community of speech and other elements "of civilization. |