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In several of the tribes of North America the hair on the head grows to a wonderful length; and Catlin gives a curious proof how much this is esteemed, for the chief of the Crows was elected to this office from having the longest hair of any man in the tribe, namely ten feet and seven inches. The Aymaras and Quichuas of S. America, likewise have very long hair; and this, as Mr.
In his table of measurements, the stature of each man is taken at 1000, and the other measurements are reduced to this standard. It is here seen that the extended arms of the Aymaras are shorter than those of Europeans, and much shorter than those of Negroes.
Whether that tribe be the Eskimo of the Northern ice-sheet or the Terra del Fuegian of the Southern, the Hawaiian of the islands of the Pacific or the Aymarás of the Amazon, all fall like grain before the scythe under the attack of a malady which is little more than the proverbial "little 'oliday" of three days in bed to civilized man.
The Aymaras spoke of their original ancestors as white; and to this day, as Dr. Brinton informs us, the Peruvians call a white man Viracocha. The myth of Quetzalcoatl is of precisely the same character. All these solar heroes present in most of their qualities and achievements a striking likeness to those of the Old World. They combine the attributes of Apollo, Herakles, and Hermes.
The Guaranys of Paraguay differ from all the surrounding tribes in having a small beard, and even some hair on the body, but no whiskers. Catlin, 'North American Indians, 3rd. ed. 1842, vol. ii. p. 227. D. Forbes, who particularly attended to this point, that the Aymaras and Quichuas of the Cordillera are remarkably hairless, yet in old age a few straggling hairs occasionally appear on the chin.
On an ancient road that runs across the island my native guide pointed out the "footprints of the sun and moon" two curious effects of erosion which bear a distant resemblance to the footprints of giants twenty or thirty feet tall. The present-day Indians, known as Aymaras, seem to be hard-working and fairly cheerful.
The Incas were, in many respects, a warlike race that is to say, they had possessed themselves by force of arms of the country in the neighbourhood of Lake Titicaca, wresting this from whatever tribe of the Aymaras it was which, highly civilized, had held the land before them.
Australians, colour of new-born children of; relative height of the sexes of; women a cause of war among the. Axis deer, sexual difference in the colour of the. Aymaras, measurements of the; no grey hair among the; hairlessness of the face in the; long hair of the.
It is not improbable that this race was that of the Aymaras; in any case it is certain that the Empire of the Incas was not of old standing, and that they had not occupied the countries they held for more than a few hundred years before the advent of the Spaniards. The Incas possessed a very definite theory concerning the origin of their tribe.
Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians; on local variation of colour in the Quichuas; on the hairlessness of the Aymaras and Quichuas; on the long hair of the Aymaras and Quichaus. Forel, F., on white young swans. Forester, Hon. O.W., on an orphan hawk. Formica rufa, size of the cerebral ganglia in. Fossils, absence of, connecting man with the apes.
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