Description:
Indid-Veddid influenced type of Southwestern India, found in its most typical form in Kerala, e.g. in Malabarese and related people. Common with a large population. It is similar to the Indo Melanids further East, often mixed with Keralids and sometimes with Malids. In Southwestern Dekkan, there exists a more brachimorph variety, the Canarese.Physical Traits:
Dark brown skin, black, often wavy hair. Medium height, mesoskelic, ectomorph. Small-headed, dolichocephalic, orthocranic or mildly hypsicranic. Mesorrhine nose, significantly wider than in Indids. The face is short with a mildly prominent chin and full lips. The features overall are less robust and more slender than in the Melanids farther east.Literature:
Biasutti described this type together with its Canarese subvariety and grouped them into Paleo Indid together with Tamils (Biasutti, 1967). Eickstedt (1929,1934,1937) considered it an Indid-Veddoid blend.
