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the Tongans and Samoans approach the norm of the Yellow-Brown race in skin 

 color, I say it knowing that a few Caucasian groups have a skin color nearer to 

 that of the Tongans and Samoans than to many ^'ellow-Brown groups. Yet on 

 the whole hrown skin is more distinctive of the Yellow-Brown peoples than it is 

 of the Caucasians. 1 have also perhaps been somewhat too generous in admitting 

 that certain characters approach the Caucasian norm when they also approach 

 the norms of other race groups. While I have said that in the amount of beard 

 and body hair the Samoans and Tongans approach the Caucasian norms it should 

 be remembered that in these respects thev approach just as closely the ^Nlelanesian 

 norm. 



Beyond saying that the bulk of the data at hand seems to point to the 

 conclusion that the Polynesians under discussion belong to the brown division of 

 the Yellow-Brown race in the same sense that it is customary to regard the 

 American Indians as members of this race, it seems unwise to go further at this 

 time. From this it should not be assumed that the relationship of the Polynesians 

 and the American Indians is immediate and close. At present I would not care 

 to do more than to express a belief that the relationship existing between the 

 Polynesians and the American Indians is considerably closer than that existing 

 between either the Polynesians or the American Indians and the Chinese. It is 

 probable, however, that closer relatives to the Polynesian will be found nearer at 

 hand. 



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