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Except for the capacity, Verneau finds these dimensions to be very 

 close to those of the Papuans and especially the MalicoUo Islanders 

 of New Hebrides ; there are also Melanesian resemblances, together 

 with some differences, of visual character. The facial parts and par- 

 ticularly the facial breadth are somewhat less like those of the South 

 Seas blacks. 



Though conscious of the danger of drawing deductions from a 

 single skull, Verneau nevertheless feels justified in concluding that 

 the Tunebo cranium reproduces the Papuan type. Compared with 

 those of different Melanesians, and more particularly with a selected 

 skull of a Papuan, the specimen in question shows various differences, 

 but these may individually be encountered in other Melanesian crania 

 and hence do not affect the conclusions. " Our Tunebo ", he says, 

 " offers such a sum of characters identical with those of the Papuans 

 that the few differences it presents — which can only correspond to 

 individual variations — do not in any way authorize its separation." ^ 



A further support is given also to the Papuan resemblances of some 

 of the crania from Lower California. "All in all," Verneau decides, 

 " it now appears no longer permissible to doubt the great extension of 

 the Papuan type in the New World. Its traces it was found possible 

 to follow, in space, from Lower California to the southern extremity 

 of the continent and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; in time, from 

 the epoch of the race of Lagoa Santa to our day." Verneau admits, it 

 is true, that there are still " many gaps in our knowledge " on the 

 subject, and that " nothing is known as to the mode of the Papuan 

 migration " ; but those are his only concessions." 



OTHER FINDS 



In 1924, also, Lebzelter reports, before the Goteborg assembly of 

 the Congress of Americanists, on a normal male adult Ona skull col- 

 lected by Father Gusinde. The specimen is contrasted with the casts 

 of one Tasmanian skull, one Lagoa Santa skull, and the Chapelle-aux- 



'° " Notre Tunebo offre une telle somme de caracteres indentiques a ceux des 

 Papouas que les quelques particularites qu'il presente — et qui peuvent ne cor- 

 respondre qu'a des variations individuelles — n'autorisent nullement a Ten separer." 

 (P. 378.) 



" " En resume, 11 ne semble plus permis de douter, a I'heure actuelle, et la 

 grande extension du type papoua dans le Nouveau Monde. Ses traces ont pu 

 etre suivies, dans I'espace, depuis la Basse-Californie jusqu'a I'extremite australe 

 de I'Amerique, et de I'Atlantique au Pacifique ; dans le temps, depuis I'epoque ou 

 la race vivait a Lagoa-Santa jusqu'a nos jours. Certes, il existe encore beau- 

 coup de lacunes dans nos connaissances, mais que de progres ont ete accomplis 

 depuis le jour 6u A. de Quatrefages a attire I'attention sur la question." (P. 382.) 



