Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Josiah C. Nott
Date:
1854
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Credit: Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the purpose of administering the country; the one in this reign bore the name of Merimes, and appears to have ended his days at Thebes, as his sepulchre remains in the western hills. He was called the sa suten en Kush, or prince of Kush, which comprised the tract of country lying south of Elephantina. In all the Ethnic li>>ts this Kash or ^Ethiopia is placed next to the head of the list, ' all lands of the south,' and its identity with the Bibli- cal Kush is universally admitted. It is generally mentioned with the haughtiest contempt, as the vile Kush (Kash kk'aas,) or ^Ethiopia, and the princes were of red or Egyptian blood. They dutifully rendered their proscynemata to the kings of Egypt.325 [Substantial reasons may be found in our Part II. for questioning a somewhat unlimited extension of the Biblical KUS^, winch certain opponents might draw from Mr. Birch's language. The hierogly- phical name for Negroes is Nahsu, or Nahsi; and, on the other hand, the Egyptian (not the Hebrew) word KiS/i, KeS/j, KaSM,327 was ap- plied to the ancient Barabra of Nubia, between the first and second cataracts, specifically; and sometimes to all Nubian families, gene- rically. The vowels a, c, i, o, in antique Egyptian no less than in old Semitic writings, when not actually inserted, are entirely vague : nor is the bieroglyphical word ever spelt kTJsh, like the Hebrew desig- nation Cush; which is maltranslated by Ethiopia, because it de- notes Southern Arabia. — Q. E. G.] The authors regret that their space compels them to abstain from reproducing the archaeological references with which Mr. Birch sup- ports his erudite conclusions. Ethnological science, then, possesses not only the authoritative tes- timonies of Lepsius and Birch, in proof of the existence of Negro races during the twenty-fourth century b. c. ; but, the same fact being conceded by all living Egyptologists, we may hence infer that these Nigritian types were contemporary with the earliest Egyptians. Such inductive view is much strengthened by a comparison of languages; concerning the antiquity of which we shall speak in another chapter. To one living in, or conversant with, the Slave-States of North America, it need not be told, that the Negroes, in ten generations, have not made the slightest physical approach either towards our aboriginal population, or to any other race. As a mnemonic, we here subjoin, sketched by a friend, the likenesses of two Negroes (Figs.