292 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 



The coins mostly appear to have been, in good or new condition when hidden, 

 but have become corroded by time, aided by marine and climatic influences 

 on or in the site in the valley. 



As nearly all were found in or near one site, the hoard may probably be 

 regarded as belonging to trade, as in a banking establishment or as a subsidy 

 lor help.^ 



One other matter arises out of this ancient entente cordialt — -Are we now 

 able to give this British port a name? 



In the Ravenna lists there is a port named Bolvelaunio, which would suit 

 this township very well. Mr. Baxter has placed it at Poole, about ten miles 

 west in Dorset. Gen. Pitt-Rivers locates it at Christchurch, about one mile 

 north on the same rivers. But these towns are English. Objections may be 

 raised to these conclusions in that these sites were not existent in the period 

 required, but later. On the other hand, the Ravenna geographer, who had 

 access to fuller records than we possess, indicates a well-known port township 

 and would harmonise better with the late Sir John Rhys' selection of the river 

 Stour as the boundary line betwixt the Brython and Goidel. 



The knowledge and usage of this West Hampshire port is now made evident 

 by these relics found within its area, and is the justification of the strong, 

 though fragmentary, ramparts still remaining on the site. 



6. Report nf Commillee on Archaological In-vestigations in Malta. — 



See Reports, p. 123. 



6. Some Glimpses of Unknown Papua. By E. W. Pe.'\rson 



Ohinnery." 



Within recent years many communities of woolly-haired people have been 

 discovered during administrative exploration in various ewamp and mountain 

 regions of the interior of British New Guinea. It has been noticed that those 

 found in the mountains are distinctly shorter than those in the bush lowlands, 

 who in turn differ physically from the coastal people. 



It will be found on further investigation that a Negrito-Papuan element, die- 

 covered in the Mafula and described by Williamson, exists also in the tribes 

 of the Owen Stanley Range from Mount Chapman to Mount Obree, all of which 

 appear, physically, to be the results of a mixture between earlier stocks of short 

 and tall, light- (yellow) and dark-skinned peoples. The various languages 

 spoken by these peoples have been classified as Papuan. 



Joint Meelinrj with Subsection I (Psychology), at which the folloving 



Papers were rea^l: — 



7. Magic and Science. Bt/ Prof. Car vetii Read.* 



8. Primitive Art as a Means of Practical Magic.^ 

 By R©v. H. J. DukinpieijD Astley, M.A., Litt.D. 



Primitive Art includes the pictographic work of primitive man, whether in 

 the past or the present. 



In the course of artistic history special attention may be drawn to the cave- 



- See C'<i:sur HI. 9, &c. 



•'' Cf. Jourv. Arithropnlo{jic(il In.sf., vol. 45, p. G9 (1915, with W. N. Beaver) ; 

 vol. 49, p. 36 (1919); Man. vol. 17, p. 55 (May 1917); vol. 19, p. 72 (Sept., 

 1919). 



■" 'J'he author has in preparation a book On the Originx of Man and hi:i Siipfr- 

 stitions, to include the subject of this paper. 



•> To be published in Hihhert Jonmal, Jan. 1920. 



