`The noted Croatian archaeologist Ćiro Truhelka (1865-1942) wrote a booklet as early as 1907 entitled Hrvatska Bosna (Mi i “oni tamo”) (“Croatian Bosnia: We and ‘They over There’”), in which he attempted to show that Bosnia and Herzegovina belonged both racially and historically to Croatia. According to Truhelka, the Catholics and Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina were members of the same fair Slavic-Croatian “ethnic element” in an “anthropological sense”, while the Orthodox Serb inhabitants of Bosnia were predominantly dark skinned with dark hair and eyes, due to their Balkan Romanic/Vlach descent.21 Truhelka cited anthropological research to argue that in Bosnia there were more than twice as many fair-haired Catholics and Muslims as there were fair Orthodox Christians, while the number of blue-eyed Catholics and Muslims in comparison to blue-eyed Orthodox Bosnians was even higher.22 Truhelka further argued that there were a higher number of brachycephalic individuals among the Croatian Catholics and Muslims, while the Orthodox population included a greater percentage of dolichocephalic skulls; this highlighted the backwardness of the Bosnian Serbs, for dolichocephaly was a “characteristic of old culturally lower races”, while brachycephaly was evidence of a people’s cultural progression.23 `
