H. J. T. BIJLMER 



161,7 c - m -) in yellow, and the big-sized, round 166 cm. (162,5 c - m - — 171,3 cm.) in blue. I 

 must acknowledge that this division cost me some difficulty and that it may not be called 

 quite natural, for in revievving ail the data, it appears that the means follow eachother in a 

 nearly unbroken line from 148,7 cm. to 171,3 cm. Nevertheless I thought myself justified in 



• isolating a tall-statured and a low-statured 



group. The Tapiro-pigmies with 144,9 cm. 

 are standing aside. 



Let us begin by considering this 

 dwarfish tribe. Where Rawling gives as 

 medium-length of 30 men 144,6 cm., 

 and Wollaston as that of 40 men 144,9 

 cm., we may hardly doubt oftheirtrue 

 pigmy-stature. Yet this short stature needs 

 identification on account of its total iso- 

 lation. Extensive anthropological investi- 

 gation was not 011e of the ends of the 

 expédition that lead to the discovery of 

 thèse famous Tapiro. The instruments 

 that were used, are not mentioned ; every- 

 body who practised measurements in the 

 jungle, knows hovv easily mistakes are 

 creeping in ; and one may understand 

 the tendency for selecting the lower sta- 

 tures, when there is but little time for 

 quiet researches. There are tvvo reasons, 

 why I cannot consider the Tapiro, be 

 their stature ever so low, as a true 

 "anthropological island". Firstly, in read- 

 ing the books of WOLLASTON and 

 Rawling on the subject, I stated that 

 the discovered mountain-tribe was of the 

 same appearance as the Timorini; forme 

 it is clear that we met with an analogous people. And secondly, when WOLLASTON repeated 

 two years later the unfortunate first expédition and chose his way a little more eastward, he 

 encountered at the same altitude a similar tribe, only he measured a standing-height of 153,5 c - m - 

 [237]. Thus, in a few miles distance the stature had nearly increased to that ofour Timorini. 

 Let us novv pass to the group in red. In the Australian, as well as in the former 

 German and in the Dutch territories, small tribes are signalled in the interior. In the begin- 

 ning of this century, the central mountain-ranges were reached in the West (Expéditions 

 GOODFELLOW and WOLLASTON), in the middle, (expéditions LORENTZ and FRANSSEN Her- 

 DERSCHEE, moreover the Dutch Military Exploration) and in the East (Mac GREGOR, Strong, 

 WlLLlAMSON, a. o.) and every where were found the "Pigmy"-Papuans, (resp. the Tapiro, the 

 Pesegem, the Goliath-Pigmies, the Kamaweka and the Mafulu). The German-Dutch frontier- 



Fig. 16. Papuans of Tobadi (Norlh-coast). Auct. pho 



