IDNO

P.7945.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: French Basques, Ripley, p.193.

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

Place

W Europe; France; Normandy; Cotentin; Landes; Lodeve; Montpellier

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Collignon (Major Dr.); 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.136, figs. 25-30, with the following captions:
“FRANCE.
[Fig.] 25-26. Teutonic type. COTENTIN, Normandy. Blond. Index 79.
27-28. Alpine type, LANDES. Brunet. Index 90.
29. LODEVE. Mediterranean types.
30. Index 76. MONTPELLIER. Brunet. 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.137-138:
“The significance of these differences in head form to the eye is manifested by the three portraits at hand. The northern long-headed blond type, with its oval face and narrow chin, is not unlike the Mediterranean one in respect of its cranial conformation. Ours is, I am informed by Dr. Collignon, a good type of the Norman peasant, with lightish though not distinctly blond hair and eyes. The Alpine populations of central France are exemplified by rather an extreme type in our middle portrait, in which the head is almost globular, while the face is correspondingly round. Such extremes are rare. They indicate the tendency, however, with great distinctness. The contrast between the middle type and those above and below it is well marked. Even with differences but half as great as those between our portrait types, it is no wonder that Durand de Gros and other observers should have insisted that they were real and not the product of imagination.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Photographer: Ripley quotes the following as the sources for the above photographs:
“25-26. Original ; loaned by Major Dr. Collignon
27-28. Original ; loaned by Major Dr. Collignon 177 160
29-30. Original ; loaned by Prof, de Lapouge, of Rennes.” (Ripley, 1913, LIST OF PORTRAIT TYPES. XXV). [JD 2/11/2009]