ANTHROPOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON TWELVE DARDS AND KAFIRS IN MY SERVICE.* By DR. G. W. Leitner. THE great interest which has been excited by recent events in the countries bordering on the Pamirs is my excuse for offering to the Asiatic Quarterly Review the following observations on "the brethren of the European" in the Hindukush, where Aryan and Pre-Aryan traditions are being destroyed by the truly fratricidal war that we have waged in Chilás, Hunza, and Nagyr, and generally by the dissolving effect of approaching British, Russian, Afghan, Indian, and other influences. Kafiristan, however, is still, practically, a terra incognita, and the Siah Pôsh Kafirs are still "an interesting race," as in 1874, when the Globe made the subject popular under that heading (see page 430). I have only been able to induce twelve Dards and Kafirs to submit to measurements, of whom I brought two to England, the Siah Pôsh Kafir Jamshêd in 1873, and the Hunza fighter Matavalli in 1887; [for their respective portraits see page 431 and next page] the former was measured by Dr. Beddoe, and the latter had already been measured in India, along with ten other Dards. It will thus be seen that the material for anthropological conclusions is extremely limited; still, even without the aid of the numerous photographic and other illustrations in my forthcoming work on "Dardistan in 1866, 1886, and 1893," to which this paper will form Appendix V., the following "observations" may possess some interest to the general reader and some value to the specialist, particularly if read along with the "Note" at the end of this paper, with which the father of British Anthropological studies, Dr. John Beddoe, has favoured me. These papers were reported at the Anthropological Section of the British Association on the 18th September, 1893. *1. ABDUL-GHAFÜR, KAMOZ KAFIR. 2. JAMSHED, KATÁR KÁFIR. 3. KHUDAYÁR, NAGYR DARD, YASHKUN. 4. MATAVALLI, HUNZA DARD, YASHKUN. 5. GHULAM MUHAMMAD, GILGIT DARD, SHIN. 6. MIR ABDULLAH, GABRIÁL DARD, SHIN. 7. GHULAM, ASTOR DARD, SHIN. 8. ABDULLAH, ASTOR DARD, SHIN. 9. IBRAHIM, NAGYR DARD, RÔNO. 10. SULTAN ALI, NAGYR DARD, YASHKUN. e described by the French system; the sixth by the German system, put into millimetres and yes to be subjected to a process so unintelligible to them. At the same time, their comparison with an European mesocephalic Ghulam 77, the exquisitely dolichocephalic Abdullah 72 53 and dolichocephalic Mir Abdullah Ali's, 5375; Khudádad's and Hatamu's, 54'4; and Ghulam Muhammad's, 54; which give the circumfe 'ah), so that in all, including Jamshed, the measurements of twelve Dards or Kafirs have been preservee Mardon the emi high; straight scarcely any ed, bushy, crossed ... nuch developed... strong ... slim (svelte) medium ... . 191 ... ... ... 136 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 59 35 34 ... ... ... ... ... 166... ... 165 high; breadth of forehead 107 high; slightly receding 2 of Drawing 2, of Appendix IV. of my forthcoming work on "Dardistan." strong For additional ay have some interest. His brachycephalic Cranial Index 81'44 may be compared with Writer and physiologist |