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LAPPS
Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Fig. 9.
Although they all have certain features in common, Karelians Savolaxians,
Esthonians with other, Finnish races of more adulterated biood, deviate from the
type described above in a more or less degree. These races are also represented
in our own country. But this is not the right place to consider these differences.
The Lapps have come to Sweden from the east, certainly before the begin*
ning of the Christian Era, and have since spread out gradually towards the south
as far as to the northern part of Dalcarlia. Probably the Lapps have never, at
any time, been a numerous nation. At the present time their numbers hardly
reach to 30,000 of which about 7,000 are found in Sweden, about 20,000 in Nor*
way and the remaining few thousands in Finland and the Kola peninsula in
Russia. The greatest number of the Swedish Lapps, about 3,500 live in the most
northern province of Sweden (Norrbotten).
The Lappish race differs very considerably from both the Finnish and the
North European Race.
The Lapp is of very low stature (the men measure about 155 cm. in height)
his hair is dark, most often black or blackish*brown, lank and coarse; his beard
is of very weak growth, his eyes are brown, his complexion has a tint of yellow*
brown in it; he has a short skuli with an index number of about 84; his face is
broad and short, with projecting eyebrows and a small lower jaw narrowing off
downwards; his nose is often concave. Figures 7 to 9 represent typical Lapps
from North Bothnia, as do also Plates XV—XVII. Mixed types occur, and not
so seldom, among the Lapps which seem to indicate that they have received an
infusion of both Swedish and Finnish biood. (See Plate XVIII).
The colour of the eyes as well as the index number of the skull is an im*
portant race*mark. One knows that it is inherited and that the possession of blue
eyes is of a recessiv nature.
The diagram on side 32 shows the division of different colours of the eye
into three shades, light, dark*medleys (= mixed) and brown, among Swedish,
Finnish, and Lappish speaking populations, according to my own, not yet pub*
lished investigations. The light eyes appear in predominating numbers among
the Swedish population and even among the Finnish in Norrbotten. Among the
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