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California Pacifid
Similar Types Pacifid, Planid, Sonorid, Arizonid
Group Pacifid
Distribution Map

Description

Pacifid variety of California and South Washington. In its purest form in Northern California. Typified by the Yurok as well as Chinook groups. Also in Hupa, Modoc, Klamath, the extinct Chumash, and related people. Mixed with Margid in Maidu, Miwok, Yokut, and many others. In recent decades, admixture with non-natives has significantly increased, so that the type will most likely vanish soon.[1]

Physical Traits

Light, sometimes medium yellowish-brown skin with straight or wavy, dark brown hair. Medium height to tall, meso- macroskelic, endomorph to mesomorph. (Hyper-)brachycephalic, chamae- orthocranic with a mildly leptorrhine, long, prominent, frequently convex nose. Features not as angular as in Northern Pacifids, the nose and face longer, skin is darker. Eyes only weakly slanted.



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