356 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



29 m. m. in length. The eye slit of the Jabim HAGEN [1899, 158] calls long and narrow, 



SCHELLONG [1891, 161] calls it wide and mentions a length of 35 m. m.. On 8 of the 45 



schedules (N os . 3, 5, 6, 19, 25, 31, 36 and 45) I noted a slightly oblique position of the eyes 



and N os . 1, 25, 27, 28, 31 and 43 had a trace of epicanthus, without touching the caruncle; 



still none were found who owing to this had a Chinese appearance, HADDON [1894, 157] 



speaks of. The irides are never black, although Maclay [1873a, 240], Meyer [1874, 99], 



COMRIE [1877, 106] and JENS [1904, 51J state they can be so, — a "black" iris means that 



there is no différence in colour between iris and pupil ! — the colour is brown, sometimes 



(SCHELLONG [1891, 161]) dark brown. Further, the distance between the inner angles, with 



the Jabim (SCHELLONG Le.) not above 35 m. m., with H. B. maies is seldom below this figure. 



The no se of the Papuan merits attention, because up till now pre-eminent authors 



as Keane [1899, 127] and Deniker [1900, 493], following the example of Wallace [1869, 



II, 185], call the large, aquiline or convex nose characteristic, although MEYER [1873, 307] 



already pointed out that at Doré and environs, where WALLACE resided, non-semitic, 



European and Malay forms of noses occur as well. Of the same territory Van HASSELT 



[1886, 577] and JENS [1904, 51] describe the fiât, broad nose like that of the young man in 



fig. 205 as a characteristic. Maclay [1873a, 240], (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 183] for Astrolabe 



Bay), SCHELLONG [1891, 162, 175] and PARKINSON [1900, 24] hâve testified against the 



judgment of WALLACE; EARL [1853, 3] particularly mentioned the broad nose as the cause 



of the Xegro character of the Papuan physiognomy. I will merely say that the aquiline nose 



is no characteristic of race ; that this form occurs, nearly ail the above-mentioned authors 



admit, also D'ALBERTIS [1880. I, 217], THOMSON [1892, 95] and HAGEN [1899, PI. 19]. On 



his territory MACLAY saw altogether only 2 or 3 of such noses, and in Humboldt Bay, as 



already remarked by Van DER GOES [1858, 169], in contrast with the supposition of HAGEN 



[1. c, 159], they do not occur at ail, no more than on Lake Sentâni. I therefore do not 



understand how MOSELEY [1877, 3^6] can report long, Jewish noses from that part. The 



différence between the North and South in this respect is so marked that some visitors to 



the first named territory consider the flat nose as the characteristic of the true Papuan 



(PARKINSON Le), whilst visitors to the south coast (COMRIE [1877, 105], HADDON [1894, 157], 



MACGREGOR [1897, 29]) look upon the aquiline nose in the same way. And yet in some 



parts of Papua Tâlandjang one cornes upon such noses amongst the usual faces (fig. 214). 



HaGEN Le. and NACHRICHTEN [1897, 56] report that in K. W. Land the long nose occurs, 



more on the coast than in the interior, whilst in British N. G. (PôCH [1906, 609]) it is just 



the Kagi people, living in the mountains, who hâve very hooked noses. 



That the wearing of a nose peg by its weight produces the long aquiline nose, as 

 supposed by Uhle [1886, 2], is erroneous (see also MOSELEY [1877, 386]), as is also the 

 opinion of De CLERCQ [1890, 152] that the nose peg has no influence at ail on the form of 

 the nose. VON ROSENBERG [1875, 85], ERDWEG [1902, 319] and others hâve already pointed 

 out that the alae nasi are pushed aside and upwards, and illustrations of FlNSCH [1888a, 

 PL XX, figs. 1 and 2], HAGEN [1899, PL 35], MEYER and PARKINSON [1900, PL 9], and 

 DENIKER [1900, figs. 149 and 150] (see also N°. 15 on PL XXXVIII, wearing a tube for 

 photographical tablets !) show this quite clearly. But it must be remembered that it is not 

 the nose bone (FlNSCH [1865, 137], Van Hasselt [1886, 579], De Clercq [1889b, 1669]) 



