IDNO

P.8000.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Italian types, Ripley, pp. 256, 270, 250. [sic p.271]

Three sets of frontal and profile head and shoulder portraits of three men, used to illustrate the types of men found in Lombardy, Campania, and Sardinia, Italy. [JD 27/10/2009]

Place

S Europe; Italy; Lombardy; Bergamo; Campania; Salerni; Sardinia; Campidano D Okistano

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Livi (Captain; Dr.)

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.271, figs. 85-90 with the following captions:
“ITALY.
85-86. BERGAMO, Lombardy. Blondish. Index 82.5.
87-88. SALERNO, Campania. Index 84.5.
89-90. CAMPIDANO D OKISTANO, Sardinia. Index 69 ” [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.270:
“On the other hand, all along the seacoast we find evidence of colonization from across the water. It is curious to contrast the north and south of the peninsula in this respect. North of Rome the immigrant populations all lie inland, while the aboriginal Ligurian is closely confined to the seacoast. In the south, on the other hand, the conditions are exactly reversed. Apulia from the heel of the peninsula north, being adjacent to the western coast of the Balkan Peninsula, contains a number of such foreign colonies from over seas. Some of these are of especial interest as hailing from the extremely broad-headed country east of the Adriatic. So persistently have these Albanians kept by themselves, that after four centuries of settlement they are still characterized by a cephalic index higher by four units than the pure long-headed Italians about them.* Many Greek colonists have settled along these same coasts. Greek dialects are still spoken at a number of places. They, however, being of the same ethnic Mediterranean stock as the natives, are not physically distinguishable" from them.f Perhaps the strongly accentuated broad-headedness in Salerno, just south of Naples along the coast, may be due to a similar colonization from abroad. Our portrait type for this district on the opposite page is certainly very different in head form from the purely Mediterranean Sardinian types, to which the normal south Italians tend. And our recruit from Salerno justly represents the people of his district. Colonization by sea rather than land would seem to be most probable.” [Source: Internet Archives, www.archive.org/details/raceseurope00ripluoft, JD 27/10/2009]

Photographer: Ripley quotes the following as the sources for the above photographs:
“85-86. Original ; loaned by Captain Dr. Livi, of Rome. . . . 189 156
87-88. Original ; loaned by Captain Dr. Livi, of Rome. . . . 187 158
89-90. Original ; loaned by Captain Dr. Livi, of Rome .” (Ripley, 1913, LIST OF PORTRAIT TYPES. XXV). [JD 2/11/2009]