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CHAPTER XVI.

SOCIETY 401

Social Stages, 401—Family, 402—Morals of Lower Races, 405—Public Opinion and Custom, 408—Moral Progress, 410—Vengeance and Justice, 414—War, 418—Property, 419—Legal Ceremonies, 423—Family Power and Responsibility, 426—Patriarchal and Military Chiefs, 428—Nations, 432—Social Ranks, 434—Government, 436.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. PAGE

1. Later Stone Age (neolithic) implements 27

2. Earlier Stone Age (palæolithic) flint picks or hatchets 29

3. Sketch of mammoth from cave of La Madeleine (Lartet and Christy) 31

4. Sketch of man and horse from cave (Lartet and Christy) 32

5. Skeletons of apes and man (after Huxley) 39

6. Hand and foot of chimpanzee and of man 42

7. Brain of chimpanzee and of man 46

8. Patagonian and Bushman 58

9. Top view of skulls 61

10. Side view of skulls 62

11. _a_, Swaheli; _b_, Persian 63

12. Female portraits 64

13. African negro 65

14. Section of negro skin, much magnified (after Kölliker) 66

15. Sections of hair, highly magnified (after Pruner) 73

16. Race or Population arranged by Stature (Galton’s method) 76

17. Race or Population arranged by Stature (Quetelet’s method) 77

18. Caribs 78

19. (_a_) Head of Rameses II., Ancient Egypt, (_b_) Sheikh’s son, Modern Egypt (after Hartmann) 79

20. Malay Mother and Half-caste Daughters 81

21. Cafusa Woman 82

22. Cairene 84

23. Andaman Islanders 88

24. Aheta (Negrito) Philippine Islands 90

25. Melanesians 91

26. South Australian (man) 92

27. South Australian (woman) 92

28. Australian (Queensland) women 93

29. Dravidian hill-man (after Fryer) 94

30. Kalmuk (after Goldsmid) 95

31. Goldi (Amur) 96

32. Siamese actresses 97

33. Cochin-Chinese 98

34. Coreans 99

35. Finn (man) 100

36. Finn (woman) 100

37. Malays 101

38. Malays 101

39. Dayaks 103

40. Kingsmill Islander 104

41. Colorado Indian (North America) 106

42. Colorado Indian (North America) 107

43. Cauixana Indians (South America) 108

44. Georgians 110

45. Swedes 111

46. Gypsy 112

47. Picture-writing, rock near Lake Superior (after Schoolcraft) 168

48. _Pater noster_ in Mexican picture-writing (after Aubin) 169

49. Chinese ancient pictures and later cursive forms (after Endlicher) 170

50. Chinese compound characters, pictures and sounds 171

51. Egyptian hieroglyphic and hieratic characters compared with letters of Phœnician and later alphabets (after De Rougé) 176

52. Gunflint-maker’s core and flakes (after Evans) 185

53. Stone Flakes 186

54. Later Stone Age (neolithic) implements 187

55. Earlier Stone Age (palæolithic) flint picks or hatchets 187

56. Stone Axes, &c. 188

57. _a_, Egyptian battle-axe; _b_, Egyptian falchion; _c_, Asiatic sabre; _d_, European sheath-knife; _e_, Roman culter; _f_, Hindu bill-hook 189

58. _a_, Stone spear-head (Admiralty Is.); _b_, stone spear-head or dagger-blade (England); _c_, bronze spear-head (Denmark); _d_, bronze dagger; _e_, bronze leaf-shaped sword 191

59. Australian spear thrown with spear-thrower (after Brough Smyth) 194

60. Bows 196

61. Ancient bullock-waggon, from the Antonine Column 199

62. Corn-crusher, Anglesey (after W. O. Stanley) 201

63. Hebrides women grinding with the quern or hand-mill (after Pennant) 202

64. _a_, Australian digging-stick; _b_, Swedish wooden hack 216

65. Ancient Egyptian hoe and plough 217

66. Natives of Lepers’ Island (New Hebrides) 239

67. Hand of Chinese ascetic 241

68. Botocudo woman with lip- and ear-ornaments 242

69. _a_, Australian winder for hand-twisted cord; _b_, Egyptian woman spinning with the spindle 247

70. Girl weaving. From an Aztec picture 248

71. Ancient Nile-boat, from wall-painting, Thebes 258

72. Bushman drilling fire (after Chapman) 262

73. Ancient Egyptian Potter’s Wheel (Beni Hassan) 275

74. Ancient Egyptian Glass-blowing (Beni Hassan) 277

75. Development of the Harp 295

76. Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian numeration 313

77. Mode of calculation by counters and by figures on Abacus 315

78. Rudimentary practical Geometry 318

ANTHROPOLOGY.