IDNO

P.7753.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Map of world showing hair texture, Ripley, p.459.”

Map of the world showing the distribution of hair texture ranging from curly, short, flat in cross-section to wavy, variable, oval in cross section. [JD 2/11/2009]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gerland, G.C.C. [Original Author]

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

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.459, with the following captions:
“Texture of Hair.” [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.459-460:
“Our map, after Gerland ( 92) , shows the geographical distribution of these several varieties of hair texture among the races of the earth. As in all our preceding world maps, we have to do with the aboriginal and not the imported peoples. Our data for North America apply to the Indians alone, before the advent of either the whites or negroes. These latter depart in no wise physically from the types whence they were derived. It appears that most of Asia and both the Americas are quite uniformly straight-haired. At the other extreme stands Africa, and especially Papua and the archipelago to the southeast of it, which as far as the Fiji group is known as Melanesia, or the " black islands." According to Keane ( 96) , the name Papua is derived from a Malay word, meaning " frizzled." This map strikingly corroborates the evidence presented by our other world maps, showing the distribution of the head form and the skin colour. Generally speaking, the aphorism holds that the round-headed people are also round-haired. The black-skinned races are, on the other hand, generally long-headed and characterized by hair of an elongated oval in cross section.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Gerland, G. C. C., 1892. Atlas der Volkerkunde. (Berghaus physikalischer Atlas. Gotha. Abth. 7.) [JD 2/11/2009]