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G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



The larva of Thrombidium van der Sandei Oudms., which with Europeans 

 entering the bush causes the scrub-itch, I did not gather from the skin of the natives, 

 who I suppose are immune from its bites. This parasite has been studied by OUDEMANS 



[1906, 131], to whose bibliography still might 

 be added: D'ALBERTIS [1880, II, 34], NEW GuiNEA 

 [1890,95], Annual Report [1897 — 98, 8; 1S99 — 

 1900, 34] and PRATT [1906, 93]. Amongst the 

 Sëkânto the expédition found a deaf-mute boy 

 (MOOLENBURGH [1904, 184]), who was very useful 

 as a guide, because he could understand much 

 better the gestures of the Europeans, the local 

 lançuaçe beinç unknown. 

 .&J&V- iv^-HS ■ :ï "^he SOMATIC CHARACTERS to be considered 



below, are principally taken from the schedules 

 of 22 fullgrown maie Sentâni people (N os . 1 — 22), 

 iS idem of Humboldt Bay (N os . 23 — 40), 2 Sentâni 

 boys (N os . 41 — 42), 3 Humboldt Bay women (N os . 

 43 — 45) and a Tarfia youth (N°. 46). 



From the colour of the skin the Papuan is 

 ranged under the Negroes or "black" races, and sorae 

 authors speak of "the black colour of the typical Papuan" 

 (Brown [1887, 321]): "franchement noire", "peau de 

 nègre" (Hovelacque and Hervé [1887, 382, 597]). 

 Wallace [1869, II, 187] describes the Arfaks as "gene- 

 rally black" and Krieger [1899, 370] mentions that 

 amongst the Tugeri there are some of a "pechkohlen- 

 schwarze" colour. Earl [1853, 3], however, states that 

 the black is certainly some shades lighter than the deep 

 black found among some Negro tribes of Africa; still 

 his native of Dourga street [1. c, PL I] he draws too 

 dark, and that of Utanata [1. c, PI. IV] certainly too light. Often the colour is described as "nearly ap- 

 proaching the black" (Van Hasselt [r886, 577], Virchow [18S9, 162]), as "dark, often nearly black" 

 (Flower [i8S5 a , 381]), "brown that might be called black" (Macgregor [1897, 28]), "sooty brown or 

 black" (Brown [Le.]), "a deep brown, often approaching closely to black" (Wallace [1869, II, 185]), but 

 never quite equalling the jet-black of some negro races [Le, 274], "very deep shades of chocolaté brown, 

 often verging on black" (Keane [1899, 127]). The observations mentioned above were made without using 

 chromatic tables; the same with the description of Erdweg [1902, 277]. In this respect, however, ail agrée, 

 that the colour of the skin differs not only according to the district but also individually among the inhabi- 

 tants of one and the same village (see also Meyer [rS74, 98], Schellong [1891, 160], Krieger [1899, 141]), 

 a fact which I can entirely confirm. — N°. 36 of my anthropometrical séries, for instance, is much darker 

 than his fellow-villagers. — This explains why authors give wide limits of the colours occurring, the lightest 

 being yellowish (Meyer [1874, 98]): Cojirie [1877, 106] mentions "from rusty black to a yellowish 

 brown", D'Albertis [1880, I, 260] "from nearly black to the yellowish tint of the Chinese". In the western 

 half of the island, where there is no intermixture with Melanesian blood (Melanesians in gênerai being 

 fairer than the Papuans: see Deniker [1900, 494]) the colour of the skin is darker among the mountaineers 



Fig. 204. Infantile pavalysis; De m ta. 



