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AN AMERIND TYPE FROM CHINA.—Prof. Seligman figures in Man for August two examples of Chinese art of the Tang period which provide a striking corroboration of the view put forward by Dr. Hrdlicka on several occasions, notably at the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists (vide Proceedings XIX. Int. Congress Americanists, p. 565), that a type identical with, or close to, the American Indian occurs over a wide area in Eastern Asia. The first of these is a whistle, roughly spherical in form, of a well-baked whitish paste, representing a head, of which the face and scalp are covered with a dull light green glaze. This might perhaps have been regarded as a freak, had it not been for a second and more striking specimen in the Eumorfopoulos collection. This is a small figurine of much the same quality as the whistle, and also covered with green glaze. In both cases the features are distinctly Amerind in cast, while the treatment of the hair suggests the lank locks of the characteristic American Indian type.
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Research Items. Nature 114, 255–256 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114255a0
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