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Kenja-tribe. As straight-haired, yellow-skinned people of one of the Great Sunda-islands, they 

 form a perfect contrast with ail New-Guinean indigènes! Luck favoured me: their standing- 

 height was practically the same as that of the Timorini and thus an immédiate comparison of 

 ail measurements was permitted. It may cause some astonishment that the "Pigmies" of the 

 Swart-valley who are doubtless of the same race as the Pesegem and even as the Tapiro 

 and the Goliath-Pigmies, were only some mm. below 155 cm., and the Dyak whom nobody 

 ever called dwarfish, some mm. above that value! In this respect I will also refer to the 

 detailed work of Prof. Keiweg DE ZWAAN on the tribes of Nias, an island west of Sumatra. 

 He found the average standing-height of more than 1200 men to be 154,7 cm., exactly that 

 of our newly discovered Mountain-Papuans. Thus the comparison with members of another 

 race starts with an unexpected resuit indeed! 



It is my intention to give at the bottom of each of my Papuan-diagrams the Dyak- 

 curve concerning the same character. As for my method of measuring, I used RUDOLPH MARTIN's 

 „Travellers Instruments", and I kept strictly to his indications [112]. 



