Post by plisbardhi on Apr 15, 2008 20:19:54 GMT -5
"...for the Montenegrin women still have pale, beautiful, regular profiles, clean-cut as a cameo, and the men have an air of true dignity about them and an eagle look such as I have seen in no other Slavonic land. Over the border Albanians have the same martial, chivalrous air, but their women have neither the dignified bearing nor aristocratic features of the Montenegrins.[5] In stature the men are often gigantic -- the average must be very high -- and men exceeding six feet are quite common, just as tall men (though not such tall men) abound in Dalmatia and Bosnia. Their features are often fine, the hair light brown, with blue or light eyes. The Northern Serbians, who are a more mixed race, have darker hair and features and are shorter in stature, the same suggestion of grace but not the same dignity."
"[5] Until recently the status of the Montenegrin women was almost as low, relatively to the man, as that of the Albanian. Chivalry in Montenegro as in Albania is usually shown to unprotected women, so that the air of greater refinement, beauty, and dignity of the Montenegrin woman is probably due to birth and heredity."
www.njegos.org/past/temperley.htm
"Consequently most of the hard works has fallen to the women's share, which they cheerfully perform, often carrying heavy loads, such as great blocks of ice, from the higher mountains down to the towns. Such labor and the hard conditions of life age them early, but when young the girls are really beautiful, with noble, Madonna-like faces; the type is rather mixed in coloring, neither light nor dark. We saw many fine gray eyes and especially noticed a lovely shade of ruddy gold hair."
www.njegos.org/ng/ng2.htm
"The significance of this increased, it being mainly the upper classes in Bosnia, according to Freeman, who embraced the religion of Islam in order to preserve their power and estates.................the physical perculiarities of these Mohammedans in Bosnia, who, as we have said, call themselves Turks. According to him a process of selection has evolved a purer "Caucasian" type, greater regularity of features, along with other traits. Certainly the force of religion as a factor in artificial selection can not be denied, as in this case."
books.google.com/books?id=g7EDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+races+of+europe#PPA412,M1 pg.412
As an accurate visual aid and a testament to the regular featured and noble type described above, take the following Mohammedan Slav speakers from the Plav-Gusinje area of Montenegro as an example:
The Albanian type:
"[5] Until recently the status of the Montenegrin women was almost as low, relatively to the man, as that of the Albanian. Chivalry in Montenegro as in Albania is usually shown to unprotected women, so that the air of greater refinement, beauty, and dignity of the Montenegrin woman is probably due to birth and heredity."
www.njegos.org/past/temperley.htm
"Consequently most of the hard works has fallen to the women's share, which they cheerfully perform, often carrying heavy loads, such as great blocks of ice, from the higher mountains down to the towns. Such labor and the hard conditions of life age them early, but when young the girls are really beautiful, with noble, Madonna-like faces; the type is rather mixed in coloring, neither light nor dark. We saw many fine gray eyes and especially noticed a lovely shade of ruddy gold hair."
www.njegos.org/ng/ng2.htm
"The significance of this increased, it being mainly the upper classes in Bosnia, according to Freeman, who embraced the religion of Islam in order to preserve their power and estates.................the physical perculiarities of these Mohammedans in Bosnia, who, as we have said, call themselves Turks. According to him a process of selection has evolved a purer "Caucasian" type, greater regularity of features, along with other traits. Certainly the force of religion as a factor in artificial selection can not be denied, as in this case."
books.google.com/books?id=g7EDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+races+of+europe#PPA412,M1 pg.412
As an accurate visual aid and a testament to the regular featured and noble type described above, take the following Mohammedan Slav speakers from the Plav-Gusinje area of Montenegro as an example:
The Albanian type: