Anthropology : an introduction to the study of man and civilization / [by] Edward B. Tylor.

  • Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett), 1832-1917.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Anthropology : an introduction to the study of man and civilization / [by] Edward B. Tylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gypsies, low-caste wanderers who found their way from India and spread over Europe not many centuries 'since. Fig. 46, a Gypsy woman from Wallachia, is a favourable tyi)e of these latest incomers from the East, whose broken- down Hindu dialect shows that part of their ancestry Fig. 46.—Gypsy. comes from our Aryan forefathers, while their complexion, swaiJthiest in the population of our country, marks also descent belonging to a darker zone of the human species. Thus to map out the nations of the world among a few