116 PHYSICAL CHARACTERS. 



eighty natives from different parts of the group, the angle varied 

 between 87° and 98°. Seventv-five of the natives had facial ang-les 

 between 90'' and 90' ; and the average of the whole number of 

 angles was 93°. On applying the method for obtaining the facial 

 angle of Cloquet to two large photograjDhs of the faces in profile of 

 two typical natives, I find the angles to be 63° and 67° respectively. 

 The common characteis of the features may be thus described : 

 face rather angular, with often a beetle-browed aspect from the 

 deeply sunk orbits and projecting brows ; forehead of moderate 

 heicfht and breadth, and somewhat flattened : middle of face rather 

 prominent on account of the chin receding ; moderate subnasal pro- 

 gnathism as indicated by Cloquet's facial angles of 63° and 67° ; 

 lips rather thick and often projecting ; nose usuall}' coarse, short, 

 straight, and much depressed at the root, with broad nostrils and 

 extended alse ; in about (me man out of five the nose is arched in a 

 regular curve, giving a Jewish cast to the face. 



Tlie Hair, Colour of Skin, Poivers of Vision, &c. 



Amongst the natives of the Solomon Group, there are four 

 common styles of wearing the hair, which I may term the woolly, 

 the mop-like, the partially bushy, and the completely bushy : these 

 prevail with both sexes, the fashion varying in different islands. 

 From frequent observations of the different modes of wearing the 

 hair, I am of the opinion that their variety is to be attributed more 

 to individual caprice than to any difference in the character of the 

 hair. According to his taste, a man may prefer to wear his liair 

 close and uncombed, when the short matted curls with small spiral 

 give it a woolly appearance,^ somewhat resembling that of the hair 

 of the African negro. Should he allow his hair to orrow, makinc;: 

 but little use of his comb, the hair will han<:r in narrow rinolets 

 three to eight inches in length, a mode wliich is more common 

 amongst the natives of the eastern islands of the group, and which 

 is best described as the " mop-headed " style. More often, from a 

 moderate amount of combing, the locks are loosel}'' entangled, and 

 the hair-mass assumes a somewhat bushy appearance, the arrano-e- 

 mentinto locks being still discernible, and the surface of the hair 

 presenting a tufted aspect.- The majority of natives, however, pro- 



' With the bushmen of the interior, the. hair appears to be permanently woolly {ride p. 121). 



- My experience, however, goes to. prove that of Miklouho-Maclay that the hair grows 

 uniformly over the scalp and not in little tufts separated by bald patches as described by 

 Topinard, 



