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| Similar Types | Sonorid, Mexicid, [[Choc�-Motilon]] |
| Group | Margid |
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Description
Ancient Margid subtype, probably arrived with one of the oldest migrations to America. Shares some features with Ainuids. During the last centuries still present along the Californian coast. Has continuously been pushed back by other Native Americans and later Europeans. Close to extinction, survives in a few descendants of Yuki, North Pomo, Wailaki, Kato, Huchnom, and Wappo.[1]
Physical Traits
Medium brown skin with straight hair. Short, mesoskelic, endomorph to ectomorph. Dolicho- mesocephalic, chamae- orthocranic with a meso- platyrrhine, short nose with a depressed root. The forehead is short and receding, the face low, the supraorbital arches strong, the eyes below them are small, but not slanting. The chin is often receding, body hair moderately strong, interorbital distance great.