Ethiopian Race

Characterized by black or dark-brown skin, close, crisp, curly (woolly) hair, narrow, elongated skull, prominent jaws (prognathous), with oblique alveolar portion, thick lips, short, flat nose, and retreating forehead and chin; facial angle only 75°. They inhabit Central and S. Africa, and are Negroes, Kaffirs, Bushmen, and Hottentots; of doubtful origin and mixed blood. The Galla and true Aby in i ans are not included, but the negroes of Soudan are often also thus designated. True Ethiopians include the Nomadic Agow, who constitute half the population of Aby in i a, the Falasha, 200,000 Jews of Aby in i a, and the Bidja, Nomadic Mohammedans, liv Ethiopians. ing in the mountains w. of the Red Sea, s. of 20° n. lat. Anciently these different peoples were more civilized than now.