Abstract
SPANISH settlers in Mexico and Central America appear to have taken an interest in the results of racial intermixture from early days. Several series of paintings in oils of seventeenth century date are in existence, of which each picture depicts a family of mixed breed, both parents and children, Spanish-Indian, Spanish-Negro and Indian-Negro, the characters being faithfully presented. The number of pictures in each series is usually five or six. One of the best is, or was, in the possession of the Hulse family, the tradition being that it was part of the dower of Dorothy Woodrow, who married the first baronet towards the end of the seventeenth century. The series was supposed to have been captured froixi the Spanish in a naval engagement; but some at least of the pictures obviously must be of later date. It is interesting to note that the evidence of cross-breeding as shown in physical characters is still to be observed in the descendants of these early admixtures.
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Negro-Indian Crosses in Mexico. Nature 133, 287 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133287b0
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