THE BLACK RACES OF OCEANIC A. 



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the greater part of the inhabitants of that island are real Papuans, and 

 even in New Guinea. 



The Polynesian type may be perceived in the Loiiisiade Archipel- 

 ago and in all eastern Melanesia, beginning at the Solomon Islands. 

 In some of the islands it is almost pure. The Papuan-Polynesians, 

 concerning which we have the most information, are those of the 

 Loyalty and Feejee Islands and New Caledonia. The Papuan type is 

 occasionally found pure in those groups, but is most frequently mixed 

 "with the Polynesian, and in these cases the mixture is accentuated by 

 marked phenomena. The heads of the half-breeds are less dolicho- 



FiG. 8. Bust of a Native of New Guinea. 



cephalous and less hypsistenocephalous than Papuan heads, without 

 reaching the Polynesian proportions. The modifications in the face 

 are more complicated. Papuans are found at the extremities of Poly- 

 nesia, as far north as the Sandwich Islands, as far south as New Zealand, 

 and as far east as Easter Island, where they have been carried by vol- 

 untary or accidental migrations, or in slavery. They also occur erratic- 

 ally in some islands of Micronesia, particularly the Caroline Islands 

 and in Rawak. 



The Australian skulls in the European museums appear to arrange 

 themselves into two homogeneous series, which do not, however, indi- 

 cate a distinction of race, as M. Topinard believes, but seem to be 

 determined by differences of sex. The man differs more from the 

 woman in this than in any other race. There are, however, other races 

 than the Australian in New Holland, as sporadic Melanesians and In- 

 donesians ; but, laying aside these casual cases and a few exceptional 



