Ethnology : in two parts, I. Fundamental ethnical problems. II. The primary ethnical groups / by A.H. Keane.
- Augustus Henry Keane
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ethnology : in two parts, I. Fundamental ethnical problems. II. The primary ethnical groups / by A.H. Keane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by the Masai nomads, and in the equatorial lake region by the AVa-Huma pastors, who, under diverse wa-^Huma. names (Watusi, Wahha, Wajiji, AVarundi, Waruanda, &:c.) are met scattered in small groups as far south as Lake Tan- ganyika. The Wa-Huma of Uganda, who are certainly of Galla descent, are described by Capt. F. D. Lugard as tall, thin and lithe, with high foreheads and most intelligent faces; the eyes piercing, the features sharp, the nose often aquiline. In colour they vary, as do the Somals, some being very pale, others black. Some are remarkably handsome men....They were much struck with the Somals [in camp], who, they said, must be of the same race as themselves'. They hold themselves aloof from the surrounding Negroid populations, and despite the now prevailing dark shades, it is significant of their Hamitic origin that the Waruanda call themselves white men, and deny all connection with the Bantu tribes'. Intermediate between the Wa-Humas and the Gallas proper are the Masai, some of whom, such as the Ngaje, Molilian and other full-blood tribes, are the most magnificently modelled men conceivable In most cases the nose is well raised and straight, as good as any European's, though passing into the Negro type in the lower class, such as the Wa-Kwafi The jaws are rarely prognathous, while the hair is a cross between the Eu- ropean and the Negro^ Indeed an admixture of black blood is evident enough, despite the statement of Lieut, von Hohnel that there is nothing of the Negro type in their appearance ^ The presence of this element is still more conspicuous in Abyssinia, where the blends between Negroes, Ethnical Hamites, and Semites are so multifarious and wide- Relations in spread that here nearly all the distinctive physical ^'^y^^''^- ^ The Rise of our East African Empire, I. p. 158. - M. Lionel Decle, The Wattisi, in your. Anthrop. Inst. May, 1894, p. 424. The pure types, says this observer, have long thin faces, with a long fine nose and a small mouth; their colour is of a rich brown without the violet black tints usually found in the Bantu races....The hair does not grow in woolly patches of a dull colour, but is of a glossy black evenly spread all over the head...very like the hair of the Abyssinians...In fact they appear to me like a kind of connecting link between the Abyssinian and Bantu types (ib.). * Joseph Thomson, Through Masailand, i884,,p. 427. * Discovery of Lakes Rudolf atid Stefatiie, 1894, vol. I. p. 244.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21500666_0425.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
