CHAPTER V. 



THE OCEANIC NEGROES : PAPUASIANS (PAPUANS AND 

 MELANESIANS); AUSTRALIANS; TASMANIANS ; NEGRITOES. 



General Ethnical Relations in Oceania The terms PAPUAN, MELANESIAN 

 and PAPUASIAX defined The Papuasian Domain Past and Present- 

 Primitive Culture - - Totemic Myths - - Temperament Cannibalism- 

 Aquatic, Arboreal, and Communal dwellings Religious ideas The Mela- 

 nesian Spirit World Social Institutions Cannibalism and Head-hunting 



Freemasonry The Neiv Caledonians Physical Characters The Stone 

 Age Early Migrations The Food Question Transmigration and Pes- 

 simism Western Papuasia Ethnical Elements Table of the Islands 

 ethnically disposed A region of Transition by Displacements and Cross- 

 ings Papuan and Malay Contrasts Ethnical and Biological Divides 

 Australians and Tasnianians A Region of long Isolation and Ethnical 

 Uniformity Early peopling of Australia Unity of Australian Speech- 

 Numeral System A Typical Hunting Race Gesture-Speech Mental 

 Capacity Religious Ideas Mythical Heroes Treatment of the Women 



Class Marriages Communal Marriage System Australian Humour 

 and Mimicry The Tasnianians Undeveloped Speech The Fire Myth 

 - Rude Implements Diet Dwellings - - Temperament -- The Oceanic 

 Negritoes The Andamanese Stone Age Religious Beliefs Cosmo- 

 gony Speech - - The Negritoes of the Malay Peninsula : Semangs, 

 Sakais Myths Physical Appearance Usages Speech Stone Age in 

 the Malay Peninsula The Negritoes of the Philippines The Aetas- 

 Head-hunters Untameable Aborigines The Family everywhere the 

 Social Unit in Negritoland. 



CONSPECTUS. 



Distribu- Primeval Home. Papuasian : Malaysia^ New 

 Past and Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia ; Australian 



Present 



Times. ana I asmanian : the whole of Australia and Tasmania 

 respectively; Negrito: India (?), Andaman*, Malay 

 Peninsula, Java, the Philippines, parts of New Guinea, 

 Timor (.?). 



