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Face
Skull types representing the
Mediterranean, Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid people represent the races of mankind.
Included in this set is a cast of a Vedda face in which the Veddid or Australiod
type is seen at its best. This is the most predominant type in the aboriginal population of
Peninsular India being characteristic of the Bhils of Bombay, the Gonds of the Madhya
Pradesh, the Chenchus of Andhra Pradesh, the Malasar of Coimbatore
and the Paniyans of Kerala. The Veddas are a primitive type of food
gatherers and hunters living in small family groups in rock shelters in Sri Lanka who are fast
disappearing.
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Mongoloid Skulls
The broad division of man
kind called races are illustrated by actual specimens of the skulls of the Caucasoid,
Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid types.
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South
Indian Skulls
The South Indian skull-modern man
who is not a uniform homogeneous type. He exhibits great diversity even at the earliest time
of his appearance. Three of these diverse types give early indications of the three principal
racial types of mankind. The Cro-magnon is associated with the modern Caucasoid and Grimaldi
with the Negroid, and the Chancelade with the Mongoloid. |
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Physical Anthropology