Evening star., 1932-02-13
HRDL|CKA TRACES
ORIENTAL TRAITS
Finds Main Difference Be-
tween Japanese and Chi.
nese Is Mental.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

! Like multlple-arched Suspension
bridge, the great Chinese SUFFRAGE of
the white European and the red"
Indian, according to DR.. Ales Hrdlicka,
curator of anthropology of the Smith
| sonian Institution.
DR.. Hrdlicka has made a close study
OF the Mongoloid peoples, both from
skeletons and photographs, in his ef-
fort to trace the ancestral relation
ships of the American Indians. He
finds subtle but far-reaching differ
ences between the Chinese and jap
anese which are well known in Asia
and which are bound to attract atten-
tion in the conflict between the two
peoples
If the present fighting in the Far
East continues, DR.. Hrdlicka says, the
Japanese are likely to find in the
ranks of their opponents tall men with
brown skins and high cheekbones, who
might have been recruited from an
Indian reservation in the United States,
standing beside men with pale COM
teriSticS which, in photographs at
least render them almost indistinguish-
able from the Central Asiatic Turkish
tribes and in instances even from
some whites.
Ancestral hemnantS.
The Chinese, on the other hand, DR.
Hrdlicka says, are likely to find among
their enemies men almost indiStin-
guishable, so far as physical characters
are concerned, from the TunghuS. the
Alnu and, rarely, even from the ESki-
mos. All of these types are ancestral
remnants" throwing light on the es-
sential differences in the distant past
in the ancestral constituents of these
two subraces of the great Mongoloid,
or yellow-brown. division of mankind
Some of the Northern Chinese are
nearer to the common stock from
which arose the waves of migration
which crossed from Siberia to Alaska
and gave rise to the Indians. The jap
anese are closer to the later elements
of this yellow-brown stock.
In both the present day races, DR.
Hrdlicka points out, the old remnants"
are detachable not only in the men, but
even more so among the women and
the children. AS the men mature they
tend to swing more closely to their sub
race pattern, which is more or less a
blend of their ancestry.
While the Chinese touch the Indians
on one side and the Hindu and Euro
pean on the other, DR.. Hrdlicka points
out. they constitute already a we'll
amalgamated racial group The pic
ture of China as a chaos of races. he
believes, is unwarranted. The differ
ences between the tall Manchus and
Chill people of the North and the Short
er, more fral type of the South, largely
can be explained on the basis of long,
continued differences in environment
especially nutrition and the relative
density of the population While many
/ thAI@ vz4r @f s~tw @l
brown" stock have gone into the COM
position of the Chinese population in
the distant past, he believes, they have
been fairly well distributed and assimi-
lated, but the "revisions' are likely to
crop out anywhere.
The Indian-like types, DR.. Hrdlicka
pointed out, are found mostly in the
Northeast and North, where the Chi
nese are in contact with Siberian
tribes, which retain more strongly the
pattern of the ancient people. and they
cross over into the original Tibetan
type, which also is close to the Ameri-
can Indian.
The links with the less Mongoloid
and Caucasian peoples come from three
sources-the nomadic Central Asian
tribes of Turkish affiliations which have
infiltrated into China through the CEN
turies, the Europeans who have reached
| westernmost China, and the Hindu
population of Northern India. There
is also small Jewish element in the
Chinese population. which has retained
in some measure its individuality.
Difference Mostly Mental.
While members of the same great
| "yelloW-brown" division of mankind,
DR.. Hrdlicka explains, the japanese are
/ constituted of somewhat different ele
| ments. They evidently are derived
| from a later offshoot of the basic stock
with which the EskimoS also are af-
| filiated. There is evidence that they
| invaded the Japanese islands from ST.
| IBERIA, forcing their way through Korea
! The japanese are of smaller stature
| than the Northern Chinese, and this
| difference, Dr. Hrdlicka says, dates from
| the time of their migration.
On entering the japanese Archipelago,
| he says, they clashed with the myste
rious primitives, the A1nu. They either
annihilated or absorbed these over most
of Japan, but remnants survive in the
northern part of the archipelago. The
present Japanese, DR.. Hrdlicka says, are
| the resultant of an agglomeration OF
! the TunghuS, Anus, Koreans, Chinese
and probably some elements from fur
ther south in the Pacific.
| The difference between the Chinese
! and japanese are not so much physical,
! however, as mental" DR.. Hrdlicka says.
In general, the Japanese are largely
materialists, the Chinese idealists. The
Japanese readily adapt and initiate.
! The Chinese are more conservative, but
also more original The japanese are
born engineers and disciplinarianS, the
Chinese incline more to the humanities.
The japanese are by far the greater
manufacturers, the Chinese the better