IDNO

P.7970.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Alpine types, Bavaria, Ripley, p.123.

Two drawings of the profiles of a Bavarian man and woman peasants of the Alpine type. [JD 3/11/2009]

Place

W Europe; Germany; Bavaria

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: Both 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.123, with the following captions:
“Alpine types, Bavaria.” [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.123-124:
“Our second racial type is most persistently characterized by the shape of the head. This is short and at the same time broad. The roundness is accompanied by a broad face, the chin full, and the nose rather heavy. These traits are all shown more or less clearly in our portraits of the Austrian German, and of the two Bavarian peasants. The side views in the latter cases show the shortness of the head as contrasted with the Teutonic type above described. At the same time the cranium is high, the forehead straight, sometimes almost overhanging. It seems as if pressure had been applied front and back, the skull having yielded in an upward direction. This type is of medium height, decidedly inclined to ward stockiness in build. Its whole aspect is rather of solid ity than of agility. The colour of the hair and eyes is rather neutral, at all events intermediate between the Teutonic and Mediterranean races. There is a tendency toward grayish eyes, while the hair is more often brown. In these respects, however, there is great variability, and the transition to the north and south is very gradual. Climate or other environmental influence has in these traits eliminated all sharp division lines. These peculiarities appear only when the type is found in extreme isolation and purity.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]