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not contain any lute. The clay-tressed heads, reminding the Plain-Papuans, were an exception. 



From the undressed crispheads we could see, how the hair-spirals tufted together in natural 



tresses ') of 5 to 8 mm. diameter; that is why the hairdress does not make the impression 



of an even fleece, but of a miniature fir-wood. A man with rather long hair — nearly 



10 cm. — ■ that framed his head like an auréole, inspired me to that comparison and it was 



fitting for many children's heads also. Later on, when returning to Holland, I had at Port-Soudan 



the opportunity of studying some negro- 



heads and then corrected my opinion 



that hair of Papuans should be more 



loosely frizzled than that of negroes. 



The hairform of both seemed to me 



quite the same. Peppercorn-hair is found 



also among our Mountain-Papuans on 



the less hairy parts of the body; I 



happened to see it a few times in beard- 



and pubic-hair. Also beard-, pubic- and 



body-hair are ahvays distinctly spiral-like. 



The length of the hair is rather 

 varying. On undressed heads the fleece 

 of hair was only some cm. thick; on 

 dressed ones the length of the tresses 

 varied between 1 and 4 dm. The women 

 ahvays had short hair. Once I saw a 

 girl with hair that hung down in the 

 neck; so I may not conclude that the 

 growth of the hair should by nature 

 be less intense in women than in raen. 

 But it is not improbable that the hard 

 labour in the burning sun has a bad 

 influence, for the hair of the women as 

 well as that of the children, that is 

 of those who are often in the gardens 

 and do not wear a head-net, is of an 



ugly faded red colour, so that we sometimes fancied to see red hair. The men on the contrary 

 who do less field-labour and moreover shield there heads by several nets, hâve a more 

 abundant hair-growth. 



Baldness and grey hair were often seen ; they cannot be considered as rare. One of 

 the most striking facts is that there are so many bearded men. But let us not forget that 

 the Papuan race has always been mentioned as a hairy one, so that thèse little mountain- 

 people are only showing a Papuan quality hère. Yet full-grown men with scanty beards are not 

 seldom seen. On the other hand we met with bearded men among the Lake-Plain inhabi- 



Fig. 6. 



Timorini-children, Swavtvalley. 



Auct. phot. 



1) As already has been described by van der Sande [176] and others. 



