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never saw the occasional reddish or gingery tinge of facial hair, which SELIGMANN observed 

 in the Koiari. He writes further: "I often saw marked variations in the depth of hair-colour 

 on the head of the same individual". Finally he refers to a notation in WOLLASTON's diary, 

 concerning the Tapiro : "Hair of three men (out of 24) distinctly not black, a sort of dirty 

 rusty-brown or rusty-black colour, ail others black-haired. 



HaGEN [61] refers to really fair persons : "Die natiirliche Farbe desselben (of the hair) 

 war schwarz-braun, doch kam auch blond als Ausnahme vor und dasz dies natiirlich und 

 nicht etwa eine durch die beliebte Kalk-einreibung hervorgebrachte Erscheinung war, konnte 

 man daraus ersehen, dasz auch das ùbrige Korperhaar, das nicht mit Kalk behandelt wird, 

 hellblond war". SCHELLONG says: [184] "Die Haarfarbe ist schwarz; sehr selten kommt auch 

 rotliches Haar mit ebensolchen Augenwimpern vor. Solche Individuen haben dann zugleich 

 die hellste Farbe der Haut". I could also quote VAN DER SANDE, but his observations cor- 

 respond absolutely with what has already been said. 



Resuming what is written, it appears : i° that the "black" Papuan hair often proves 

 to be brown on closer observation, sometimes not even dark-brown ; 2° that reddish discolo- 

 ration is very common ; 3 that really fair hair, "fox-coloured", is reported especially by 

 HAGEN (Kaiser Wilhelm Land and Bismarck Archipelago) and NEUHAUSS (but then only 

 for Wasa and the Markham-valley). The first observation cannot surprise, as also the dark 

 skin of the Papuans varies to the lighter shades; the second we might expect in men, always 

 walking bare-headed in the tropical sun, and I would hardly hâve mentioned it, if not NEU- 

 HAUSS had treated this matter so extensively. On the other hand, the third observation is 

 very curious indeed, perhaps we meet hère with a remnant of the ancient forefathers. 



That the Papuans are rightly callecl a hairy race may appear from the fréquent occur- 

 rence of beards in the most différent parts of New-Guinea. I said already that beards were 

 common among the Timorini, but that they were not missing either in the Lake-Plain. The 

 officers of the Dutch Military Exploration [125] report also beards among the non-pigmoïd 

 tribes of the Northern territory. Van DER SANDE and GjELLERUP [52] mention beards as 

 common for old men in the hinterland of Humboldt-Bay, while at the coast ail facial hair is 

 extirpated. In the former German territory beards are not missing either, — though Schel- 

 long f. i. calls them scanty — , and the same may be said of Papua (f. i. Koiari). The Papu- 

 ans of the South-coast also appear not to be deprived of beards: Koch saw them often 

 among the Tugeri, though they were not heavy. On the other hand, not ail the mountaineers 

 are bearded : the Goliath-Pigmies [83] are beardless, because they are accustomed to pull 

 out carefully every single hair; as for the Mafulu, WlLLIAMSON observed the same. On the 

 contrary, the Tapiro and the Pesegem struck by their beard-growth and DETZNER [3 i] reports 

 long beards among the mountain-people on the former Anglo-German frontier. 



Summarizing, we can state that the Papuans represent in this respect a fairly homo- 

 geneous group, which indeed may be called hairy. 



INDEX CEPHALICUS. 



One is inclined to connect the Papuan race with dolichocephaly, because the large 

 skull-series, collected from several parts of New-Guinea, procured low index-figures. Moreover 

 the old travellers had stated this headform on the spot. VON Miklucho-Maclay [103] adjusted 



