The Lapps within the historical period have considerably recruited themselves from neighboring races. Shortness of stature is their most obvious characteristic, though in regard to this much exaggeration has prevailed. Duben found an average of 4-9 ft. for males and a little less for females; Mantegazza, who made a number of anthropological observations in Norway in 1879, gives 5 ft. and 4-75 ft., respectively (Arc/iivio Hence they have been supposed by many to be the originals of the little folk of Scandinavian legend. per lantrop., 1880). Individuals much above or much below the average are rare. The body is usually of fair proportions, but the legs are rather short, and in many cases somewhat bandy. Dark, swarthy, yellow, copper-colored are all adjectives employed to describe their complexionthe truth being that their habits of life do not conduce either to the preservation or display of the natural color of their skin, and that some of them are really fair, and others, perhaps the majority, really dark. The color of the hair ranges from blonde and reddish to a bluish or greyish black; the eyes are black, hazel, blue or grey. The shape of the skull is the most striking peculiarity of the Lapp. He is the most brachycephalous type of man in Europe, perhaps in the world.1 According to Virchow, the women in width of face are more Mongolian in type than the men, but neither in men. nor women does the opening of the eye show any true obliquity. In children the eye is large, open and round. The nose is always low and broad, more markedly retrouss among the females than the males. Wrinkled and puckered by exposure to the weather, the faces even of the younger Lapps assume an appearance of old age. The muscularsystem is usually well developed, but there is deficiency of fatty tissue, which affects the features (particularly by giving relative prominence to the eyes) and the general character of the skin. The thinness of the skin, indeed, can but rarely be paralleled among other Europeans. Among the Lapps, as among other lower races, the index is shorter than the ring finger. The Lapps are a quiet, inoffensive people. Crimes of violence are almost unknown, and the only common breach of law is the killing of tame reindeer belonging to other owners. In Russia, however, they have a bad reputation for lying and general untrustworthiness, and drunkenness is well-nigh a universal vice. In Scandinavia laws have been directed against the importation of intoxicating liquors into the Lapp country since 1723.

 

PUBLISHED DATE	1884 PARIS
ARTIST	FOULQUIER
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PUBLISHER	THOMAS DE LAMOTTE SAINTE-MARTIN
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