small; lips of moderate size; head of medium size and well shaped; forehead not small but retreating.'
Lethermann, in
Smithsonian Rept., 1855, p. 288. 'Fine looking, physically.' 'Most symmetrical figure, combining ease, grace and power, and activity.' And the Comanches 'about five feet ten inches in height, with well proportioned shoulders, very deep chest, and long, thin, but muscular arms.'
Cremony's Apaches, pp. 49, 305, 15. The Mojave 'men are tall, erect, and finely proportioned. Their features are inclined to European regularity; their eyes large, shaded by long lashes.' The Cuchans are 'a noble race, well formed, active and intelligent.'
Whipple, in
Pac. R. R. Rept., vol. iii., pp. 110, 114. The Navajos are distinguished 'by the fullness and roundness of their eyes.'
Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept., in
Pac. R. R. Rept., vol. iii., p. 31. 'The Camanches are small of stature … wear moustaches and heads of long hair.'
Pope, in
Pac. R. R. Rept., vol. ii., p. 15. The Comanches 'que da un aspecto bien particular á estas naciones, es la falta completa de cejas, pues ellos se las arrancan; algunos tienen una poca barba.'
Berlandier and Thovel,
Diario, p. 253. The Yumas 'if left to their natural state, would be fine looking,' but the Hualpais 'were squalid, wretched-looking creatures, with splay feet, large joints and diminutive figures … features like a toad's. … They present a remarkable contrast to our tall and athletic Mojaves.' The Navajos are 'a fine looking race with bold features.' 'The Mojaves are perhaps as fine a race of men physically, as there is in existence.'
Ives' Colorado River, pp. 44, 54, 97–8, 108, 73, 128, 19, 39, 59, 66, plate p. 66. The Comanches are 'de buena estatura.'
Beaumont,
Crónica de Mechoacan, MS., p. 527. The people between the Colorado and Gila rivers. 'Es gente bien agestada y corpulenta, trigueños de color.'
Sedelmair,
Relacion, in
Doc. Hist. Mex., serie iii., tom. iv., p. 851. The Cruzados are described as 'bien agestados y nobles y ellas hermosas de lindos ojos y amorosas.'
Salmeron,
Relaciones, in
Doc. Hist. Mex., serie iii., tom. iv., p. 31; see also
Cordoue, in
Ternaux-Compans,
Voy., serie i., tom. x., p. 446. In New Mexico Allegre describes them as 'corpulentos y briosos, pero mal agestados, las orejas largas … tienen poco barba.'
Allegre,
Hist. Comp. de Jesus, tom. i., p. 332; and of the same people Alcedo writes 'son de mejor aspecto, color y proporcion que los demás.'
Diccionario, tom. iii., p. 184. And Lieut. Möllhausen, who frequently goes into ecstasies over the splendid figures of the lower Colorado people, whom he calls the personification of the ancient gods of the Romans and Greeks, says further that they are 'grosse, schön gewachsene Leute,' and describes their color as 'dunkelkupferfarbig.' Of the women he adds 'Ganz im Gegensatze zu den Männern sind die Weiber der Indianer am Colorado durchgängig klein, untersetzt und so dick, dass ihr Aussehen mitunter an's komische gränzt.' Comparing the Hualapais with the Mojaves he writes 'auf der einen Seite die unbekleideten, riesenhaften und wohlgebildeten Gestalten der Mohaves … auf der andern Seite dagegen die im Vergleich mit erstern, zwergähnlichen, hagern. … Figuren der Wallpays, mit ihren verwirrten, struppigen Haaren, den kleinen, geschlitzten Augen undmden falschen, gehässigen Ausdruck in ihren Zügen.' The Cosninos he calls 'hässlich und verkümmert.'
Möllhausen,
Tagebuch, pp. 331, 382–8;
Möllhausen,
Reisen, tom. i., pp. 123–4, 199, 215, 274, 293, 318, tom. ii., pp. 43, 37, and plate frontispiece.
Möllhausen,
Mormonenmädchen, tom. ii., p. 140. The Comanche 'men are about the medium stature, with bright copper-coloured complexions … the women are short with crooked legs … far from being as good looking as the men.' In the Colorado Valley 'are the largest and best-formed men I ever saw, their average height being an inch over six feet.'
Marcy's Army Life, pp. 25, 279. 'Les Comanchés ont la taille haute et élancée, et sont presque aussi blancs que les Européens.'
Soc. Géog.,
Bulletin, serie v., No. 96, p. 192. And of the Comanches see further.
Dragoon Camp., p. 153. 'Robust, almost Herculean race.'
Foote's Texas, vol. i., p. 298. 'Exceedingly handsome.'
Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mex., vol. ii., p. 308;
Hartmann and Millard's Texas, p. 109. 'Women are ugly, crooklegged, stoop-shouldered.'
Parker's Notes on Tex., pp. 189, 232, 194;
Mexikanische Zustände, tom. i., p. 373;
Froebel's Cent. Am., p. 267; see also
Froebel,
Aus Amerika, tom. ii., p. 101;
Gregg's Com. Prairies, vol. ii., pp. 37–8;
Domenech,
Journ., p. 132. The Yuma 'women are generally fat.' 'The men are large, muscular, and well formed.'
Bartlett's Pers. Nar., vol. ii., pp. 180, 178. Navajo women are 'much handsomer and have lighter complexions than the men.'
Pattie's Pers. Nar., pp. 218–19;
Simpson's Jour. Mil. Recon., p. 52;
Domenech's Deserts, vol. ii., pp. 7, 10, 24, 65, plate 8. The Navajos have 'light flaxen hair, light blue eyes … their skin is of the most delicate whiteness.'
Brownell's Ind. Races, p. 545;
Hughes' Doniphan's Ex., p. 203. On the Mojaves see further,
Stratton's Capt. Oatman Girls, p. 138;
Sitgreaves' Zuñi Ex., p. 18;
Cal. Mercantile Jour., vol. i., p. 227, plate;
Clum, in
Ind. Aff. Rept., 1871, p. 363. And on the Yumas.
Poston, in
Ind. Aff. Rept., 1863, p. 387;
Browne's Apache Country, p. 61;
Taylor, in
Cal. Farmer,
Feb. 22, 1860. Women's 'feet are naturally small.'
Emory's Rept., in
U. S. and Mex. Boundary Survey, vol. i., p. 109. The Yampais are broad-faced, and have 'aquiline noses and small eyes.'
Palmer, in
Harper's Mag., vol. xvii., p. 460.
Indian Traits, in
Hayes Col.
650. 'Their average height is about five feet four or five inches. They are but slimly built, and possess but little muscular development … light brownish red color.' Some have 'a Chinese cast of countenance … rusty black hair.' Smart, in Smithsonian Rept., 1867, p. 418. Their 'features were flat, negro-like … small legged, big-bellied and broad-shouldered.' Emory's Reconnoissance, p. 52. 'More miserable looking objects I never beheld;' legs, 'large and muscular.' Fremont and Emory's Notes of Trav., p. 139. 'Widerliche Physiognomien und Gestalten … unter mittlerer Grösse … grosse Köpfe, vorstehende Stirn und Backenknochen, dicke Nasen, aufgeworfene Lippen und kleine geschlitzte Augen. … Ihr Gesicht war dunkler als ich es jemals bei Indianern gefunden.' Möllhausen, Tagebuch, p. 360. 'Von zottigen weit abstehenden Haupthaaren bedeckt.' Möllhausen, Flüchtling, tom. iii., p. 49. 'Ill-formed, emaciated, and miserable looking race … had all a treacherous-fiendish look.' Bartlett's Pers. Nar., vol. i., p. 327. 'Physically of a slighter build than any Indians I have seen.' Clum, in Ind. Aff. Rept., 1871, p. 47. 'Most wretched looking Indians I have ever seen.' Sitgreaves' Zuñi Ex., p. 14. 'Small in stature. … Coal-black eye.' Peters' Life of Carson, p. 326. 'Hair is very black and straight, much resembling horse hair … appears to belong to the Asiatic type.' Henry, in Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. v., p. 211. 'Gipsy looking with an eye singularly wild and piercing.' Houstoun's Texas, p. 227. 'Have very light complexions.' Ward's Mexico, vol. i., p. 580. 'Die Lipanis haben blondes Haar, und sind schöne Leute.' Mühlenpfordt, Mejico, tom. i., p. 215, tom. ii., pt. ii., p. 421. 'Sont des beaux hommes.' Lachapelle, Raousset-Boulbon, p. 82. 'Tall, majestic in figure; muscular.' Brantz-Mayer's Mex. Aztec., etc., vol. ii., p. 123. 'Fine physical conformation.' Foote's Texas, vol. i., p. 298. 'Their skin looked whiter than I have ever seen it in the Indians.' Wizlizenus' Tour, p. 71. 'Crian pié menor que los otros indios.' Sonora, Descrip. Geog., in Doc. Hist. Mex., serie iii., tom. iv., p. 564. 'Todos son morenos, cuerpo bien proporcionado, ojos vivos, cabello largo y lampiños.' Velasco, Noticias de Sonora, p. 265. 'Su talla y color diferencian algo en cada tribu, variando este desde el bronceado al moreno. Son todos bien proporcionados … y ninguna barba.' García Conde, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, tom. v., p. 314; see also Cordero, in Orozco y Berra, Geografía, pp. 370–1. 'Though not tall, are admirably formed, with fine features and a bright complexion, inclining to yellow.' Pattie's Pers. Nar., p. 117. 'Son altos, rubios y de bellisimas proporciones.' Revista Científica, tom. i., p. 55. 'Taille ordinaire, de couleur foncé.' 'Comme ces Indiens ne font leur nourriture que de chair et principalement de celle de l'âne et du mulet, ils exhalent une odeur si pénétrante que les chevaux et surtout les mules rebroussent chemin aussitôt qu'ils les éventent.' Soc. Géog., Bulletin, série v., No. 96, p. 187.
651. 'Cut their hair short over the forehead,
