ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE DUTCH SGIENTIFIG 

 CENTRAL NEW-GUINEA EXPEDITION A 1920, FOLLOWED 

 BY AN ESSAY ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE PAPUANS 



BY 



H. J. T. BIJLMER. 



(With 30 Diagiams and 22 Textfigures). 



INTRODUCTION. 



On the 15A of January 1920 the Dutch Scientific Central New-Guinea Expédition left 

 the port of Soerabaia. This enterprise had been planned by the „Indisch Comité voor Weten- 

 schappelijke Onderzoekingen"' (Indian Committee for Scientific Researches) at Batavia and was 

 supported by the Uutch-Indian Government. It had in view scientific exploration — ■ geolo- 

 gical, botanical, zoological, ethnological and anthropological researches — of the high mountain- 

 ranges in the centre of the island ; moreover the expédition aimed at reaching the Wilhel- 

 mina-snowtop from the North. In 1909 LORENTZ had already climbed this mountain from 

 the South and in 191 3 FRANSSEN-HERDERSCHEE had reached its top. Gaining it from the 

 North would mean the crossing of this next to Greenland greatest island of the world. 

 Hovvever, the expédition of 1920 did not succeed in this last point; it ascended the Central 

 Mountains up to a height of more than 10.000 feet and explored a well populated valley. In 

 December it had to return to its base. This state of affairs induced the Indian Committee to 

 make another attempt in 192 1, with the resuit that Commander J. H. G. KREMER, D. R. Navy, 

 reached the summit of the Wilhelmina-top on the 4' h of December of that year. The geolo- 

 gist Dr. P. F. HUBRECHT who accompanied him, had been there already with FRANSSEN- 

 HERDERSCHEE, coming from the South-coast, and so he is the first European who crossed 

 New-Guinea in its broader part. 



The members of the first expédition were: Capt. A. J. A. VAN OVEREEM, leader; 

 Commander J. H. G. KREMER, for astronomy, meteorology, topography; Dr. P. F. HUBRECHT, 

 geologist; Jhr. W. C. VAN HEURN, zoôlogist ; Dr. H. J. Lam, botanist; J. JONGEJANS, ethno- 

 logist; H. J. T. BljLMER, physician and anthropologist ; H. DE Rook '), physician ; Capt. J. VAN 

 ARKEL, Lt. K. DroST and Lt. J. KOOY, officers to the military escort (100 Javanese 

 soldiers), Lt. J. DROOG, engineering officer; further 160 Malay coolies and 115 Dyak rowers. 

 KREMER, HUBRECHT, van ARKEL and DROST climbed the Wilhelmina-top in 1921, during 

 the second enterprise. 



1) De Rook replaced the médical officer A. ten Haaf who had to leave N. Guinea in June 1920 because of illness. 

 Nova guinea, VII. 4. Ethnographie. 45 



