THE BLACK RACES OF OCEANIC A. 



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tal. The most marked characters in the face are the thickness of 

 the external orbital processes, the forward projection of the cheek- 

 bones, the depression of the root of the nose, the shortness and breadth 

 of the nose, and the mode of termination of the bridge of the nose, 

 which, instead of forming an angle, is prolonged into a kind of a gutter. 

 The jaws are narrow and the branches of the dental arch tend to be 

 parallel. The palatal vault is deep ; and the prognathism is very 



Fig. 10. Bust of a Tasmanian. 



great, the mean alveolar facial angle being 64, but the massive teeth 

 are less oblique than the alveolar part. 



In the women the prominences of the brows nearly disappear, while 

 the parietal bosses are more accentuated. The forehead and the lower 

 occipital bone are more swollen ; the antero-posterior curve is rela- 

 tively depressed, although the skull continues to show the form of a 

 roof. The prognathism of the face is more marked, and the teeth are 

 more inclined than in the men. 



The second Australian type, the dolichoplatycephalic or Neander- 

 thaloid type, although it is less widely diffused than the other, is nev- 

 ertheless of very great interest to anthropologists. In it there exist, 

 as Huxley has already remarked, individuals and even a whole race, 

 although it is disappearing, that present the cranial forms of which 

 the Neanderthal man affords the most pronounced example. We are 



