Sicilian Carnagione

[darkerhorse]

Anyone care to comment on this?

"When Sicilians have a baby, the question on everyone’s lips is, what carnagione do they have? Carnagione means skin tone, and in Sicily, you never know what you’ll get. Dark like Nonna Pina? Blonde and green-eyed like Nonna Anna? Deep olive skin like uncle Danilo? I have a brother-in-law who is extremely dark but his son has platinum blonde hair and blue eyes."

My Sicilian grandfather had brown skin all year long, though he got somewhat darker in the summer due to tanning. I would say he had no olive tones. His passport recorded his complexion as "bruno" and documents in the US also recorded darker skin.

My Sicilian grandmother was lighter-skinned with olive tones. I don't recall her tanning or getting darker in the summer.

Both had dark hair and eyes. They were third cousins to each other through their fathers, and came from the same small town in Siracusa Province.

I'm trying to sort out skin color, skin pigment, skin complexion, skin tones, etc., and how they interplay, especially among Sicilians.

[darkerhorse]

I assume ship manifests were completed in the country of origin by natives.

For complexion, olive is rarely recorded.

But I've seen pages of Italian immigrants with some classified as natural and others as dark.

Does that suggest that natural is medium skin color?

[BosseDorotea]

Thanks for sharing.That's so deep and wonnderful.