IDNO

P.7942.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: France 3 types, Ripley, p.137. [sic p.157]

A set of frontal and profile head and shoulder portraits of four women and two men, used to illustrate the teutonic, alpine and mediterranean types of France. [JD 27/10/2009]

Place

W Europe; France; Deux-Sevres; Aveyron; Montpellier

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

de Lapouge (Prof.)

Collector / Expedition

Ripley, William Zebina [Author]

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: All six images were published in Ripley, William Zebina, 1900, The Races of Europe; a sociological study (Lowell institute lectures) (London, K. Paul Trench, Trübner & co., ltd), p.157, figs. 31-36, with the following captions:
“FRANCE.
[Fig.] 31-32. TEUTONIC TYPES .
33-34. DEUX-SEVRES. Index 87. ALPINE TYPES.
34. Index 86. AVEYRON. ALPINE TYPES.
35. Cephalic Index 67. MONTPELLIER. MEDITERRANEAN TYPES.
36. MONTPELLIER. MEDITERRANEAN TYPES.” [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.156:
“The northeastern third of France and half of Belgium are to-day more Teutonic than the south of Germany. This is clearly attested by the maps which show the distribution of each of the physical characteristics of race, especially, as we have seen, that of stature. It should not occasion surprise when we remember the mcessant downpour of Teutonic tribes during the whole historic period. It was a constant proces sion of Goths from all points of the compass of Franks, Burgundians, and others. France was entirely overrun by the Franks, with the exception of Brittany, by the middle of the sixth century. All through the middle ages this part of Europe was not only ethnically Teutonic : it was German Jn^ language and customs as well. The very name of the country is Teutonic. It has the same origin as Franconia in southern Germany.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Photographer: Ripley quotes the following as the sources for the above photographs:
“31-32. Original ; loaned by Prof, de Lapouge, of Rennes
33-36. Original ; loaned by Prof, de Lapouge, of Rennes
.” (Ripley, 1913, LIST OF PORTRAIT TYPES. XXV). [JD 2/11/2009]