22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



ANTHBOPOLOGICAL NOTES FEOM BEITISH NEW GUINEA. 



By CHARLES G. SELIGMANN, M.B., M.E.C.P., F.Z.S. 



(Bead 13th February, 1906.) 



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The following paper is compiled from notes taken during the 

 Daniels Expedition to British New Guinea in 1904. Owing to limits 

 of time and space it has seemed best to confine my remarks to two of 

 the etlmographically least known portions of the country visited by the 

 expedition, and so I have selected the extreme Western and Eastern 

 parts of the Possession as the subject of this communication. 



One of the main objects of the recent expedition was to study 

 the physical characteristics of the natives of the country west of the 

 Fly delta, as it was important to determine whether the common be- 

 lief, that in British New Guinea near the Dutch boundary there were 

 natives resembling Australians, was true or not. In order to deter- 

 mine this the natives from two localities, both west of the delta of the 

 Fly, were examined. Those seen at Bugi consisted of the remains of 

 a number of tribes from the neighbourhood of Bugi and from Strachan 

 Island who had escaped death at the hands of Tugere raiders over the 

 Dutch border, farther west on the Netherlands boundary the Toro 

 tribe were seen three days' journey up the Bensbach River and a 

 number of these people were carefully measured and photographed. 

 The natives seen at Bugi physically resembled the Toro in many 

 respects, but were slightly shorter and on the whole less long headed. 

 Culturally too they seemed closely related to the Toro, though as they 

 were extremely timid it was not easy to make sure of this in the short 

 time at our disposal. 



The members of the expedition had the advantage of accompany- 



