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88 SWEDES AND FINNS IN FINLAND
As can be seen from the information presented above, the Swedes in Finland
show rather decidedly the anthropological characteristics which are considered tys
pical for the Nordic (or Germanic) race: tall stature, predominating Dolichocephali
together with light eyes and fair hair. The Finns on the contrary are shorter,
and the predominating number are of the brachycephalic type, but in common
with Swedes they have mostly light eyes and fair hair. These last named charac«
teristics are very interesting. They indicate decidedly that the Finnish race=groups
cannot be considered anthropologically to belong to the Mongol race, as one
earlier tried to assert.
Meanwhile it is yet too early to definitely establish the position of the Finns
systematically. This chiefly depends upon the fact that at the present time we
have not been able to collect sufficient material in Finland. It may be especially
emphasized, that careful craniosmetrical examinations are yet lacking, and that
the material we now possess, concerns almost exclusively male individuals, and
within a highly limited age too. (Age for military exercise.)
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