IDNO

P.7749.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Map of world showing distribution of Cephalic Index, Ripley, p.42.”

Map of the world showing the distribution of the cephalic index with heads ranging from broad heads to long heads. [JD 2/11/2009]

Place

Oceania; America; Europe; Oceania Australasia; Asia; Africa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1913

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: The image was published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.42, with the following captions:
“Cephalic Index.” [Full text available on Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: The following text is found in Ripley, 1913, pp.42-43:
“Turning to the world map * on the opposite page, which shows the geographical distribution of the several types of head form which we have described, the first fact which impresses
itself is of the violent contrasts in the eastern hemisphere be tween Europe-Asia and the two southern continents Africa and Australia.
*This map is constructed primarily from data on living men, sufficient in amount to eliminate the effect of chance. Among a host of other authorities, special mention should be made of Drs. Boas, on North America ; Soren-Hansen and Bessels, on the Eskimos ; von den Steinen, Ehrenreich, Ten Kate, and Martin, on South America; Collignon, Berenger-Feraud, Verneau, Passavant, Deniker, and Laloy, on Africa ; Sommier and Mantegazza, on northern, Chantre and Ujfalvy, on western Asia ; Risley, on India ; Lubbers, Ten Kate, Volz, Micklucho-Maclay, and Maurel, on Indonesia and the western Pacific. For special details, TV ,/, Balz, on Japan ; Man, on the Andamans ; Ivanovski and Yavorski,
on the Mongols, etc. For Africa and Australia the results are certain; but scattered through a number of less extended investigations. Then there is the more general work of Weisbach, Broca, Pruner Bey, and others. All these have been checked or supplemented by the large collections of observations on the cranium. It will never cease to be a matter of regret that observers like Hartmann, Fritsch, Finsch, the Sarasin brothers, Stanley, and others, offer no material for work of this kind. For the location of tribes, we have used Gerland’s Atlas fur Volkerkunde. It is to be hoped that Dr. Boas’s map for North America, now ready for publication, may not long be delayed; our map has benefited from his courteous correction.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]