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‘two individuals were B, indicating that originally these tribes were devoid of B, and therefore
no more Mongoloid than other Amerinds.

Recent work in testing the blood groups of the Australian aborigines, Maori and Bushmen,
shows that these and other primitive or peripheral peoples are high in A but devoid of B, con-
firming the view that the A blood group originated earlier than the B.

Genetical problems connected with the origin and spread of the blood groups are discussed,
and it is regarded as something of a dilemma that the American Indians should be nearly or
quite devoid of A as well as B, since they must be supposed to have come from north-eastern
Asia at a relatively recent period, when the A blood group would already have been widely
distributed in the Eastern hemisphere. It is pointed out that blood tests of various eastern
Asiatic peoples resembling the Amerinds may throw further light on this problem. The view is
expressed that these peoples in the coastal islands of Eastern Asia are remnants of the
ancestral groups from whom the Indians were derived. The present tests at least show that
the Pacific Coast tribes are not a later Mongoloid wave, but resemble other Amerinds in blood
groups and other essentials.

Photographs, blood groups and other evidence show that in the various Kwakiutl villages
there has been much crossing with whites, and occasionally with Japanese and negroes. The
photographs are a record of present physiognomy, for comparison with earlier and also with
future conditions. They show the rapidity with which the culturally advanced Pacific coast
tribes have assimilated European blood and the elements of the white man’s culture.

The inheritance of the A blood group through four generations is shown in Text-fig. 1, p. 29.

The presence of the Mongolian spot in the children is recorded and a photograph of one

-case is shown in Pl. V, Fig. 9.

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