326 FORMS OF THE SKULL. 



The fifth, or Malay, variety Including the inhabitants of 

 the numerous Asiatic islands, and those of the Great Pacific 

 Ocean, constitutes an intermediate link between the Euro- 

 pean and Negro. The cranium is moderately narrowed and 

 slanting at its anterior and upper part; the face large, and 

 all its parts fully developed ; the jaws more or less prominent. 



It must be confessed, that the numerous tribes, included 

 within the boundaries of this variety, differ considerably from 

 each other; and, consequently, that the whole cannot fall 

 within any one clearly-marked character. The Papua race 

 are described as having all the appearance of Negroes. I 

 have seen no skull, nor any representation of one, belonging 

 to a native of New Guinea. The New Hollanders certainly 

 partake of the Negro form, yet are easily distinguishable 

 from African Negroes. In the two heads engraved by Blu- 

 MENBACH *, the foreliead rather slants above the eyes, but 

 the head rises to a considerable height at the coronal suture. 

 The nose is not so flat, nor the zygoma so prominent, as in 

 the African. The alveolar edge of the upper jaw projects 

 in front ; the chin is not cut off, as in the Negro. The 

 crania of New Hollanders which I have seen correspond 

 with these. In some, as in a female skull in the College 

 Museum, the superior incisors are placed as obliquely as in 

 the Negro ; but none have so low a forehead and vertex as 

 some of that race. 



The Otaheitean skull f does not differ in any essential 

 points from the European formation, so far as the cranium 

 goes. The front and lower part of the forehead may be a 

 little contracted and slanting. The face is altogether large, 

 and the upper jaw fully developed : its alveolar portion, 

 too, projects slightly in front. 



The head of a native of Nukahiwah t, one of the groupe 

 called the Marquesas Islands, presents a very beautiful and 

 symmetrical organization corresponding to tiie descriptions 

 of the great stature, fine proportions, and strength of these 

 islanders. Except that the face is larger, its lower part 



* Tab. 27 & 40. t Ibid. tab. 26. 

 \ Ibid tab. 50. 



