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H. J. T. BIJLMER 



AUTHOR 

 (and the method, used by him) 



A. B. Meyer 



(shot-filling). 



Hauser 



(millet-filling). 



Dorsey 



(shot-filling). 



V. D. BROEK 



(meth. of Manouviier). 



PROVENANCE OF 

 THE SKULLS. 



SKULL-CAPACITY IN C.C. 



Geelvink Bay. 



d'Entrée. Arcliipelago. 



Papuan Gulf? 



South-West plains. 



54 maies 



1398 (1660 — 1115) 30 feraales 

 I2 73 (1355— "40) 



1425 



1250.7 (1476— 1019) 



7 „ 



1275 (14S0 — ic 



1153.6 (1434- 



Sergi also found concerning his skull-series from the d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago 

 77,i°/ microceph. skulls (below 1350 ce.) He used the division of Flower and Turner, vvhich 

 I give hère together with that of Sarasin, adopted by RuDOLPH MARTIN. 



Sarasin : 



oligenkephal .... x — 1300 



euenkephal 1301 — 1450 



aristenkephal .... 145 I — x 



Flower and Turner: 



microcephalic 

 mesocephalic 

 megacephalic 



x— 1350 

 I350— 1450 

 1450— x 



In another diagram (Diagr. XXX) I depictured the frequency-curves of the cranial 

 indices of three large skull-series. Their provenance is from three différent parts of New-Guinea, 

 which are ail situated in the dolichocephalic area. The Geelvinck-Bay-skulls [119] are highly-, 

 the Gulf-skulls [54] fairly concentrated round 72, the curve concerning the South-West-coast 

 is somevvhat broadly topped. Ail diagrams agrée on a mean of a trifle above 72. 



I won't omit to mention the skulls studied by DORSEY [35], giving also a cranial index 

 of 72, though their origin, probably the région of the Papuan Gulf is very uncertain. DENIKER 

 (Revue d'Anthropologie, VI, 1883) calculated an index of 72 as the mean of ail measurements, 

 known in that time from the différent parts of New-Guinea (the 135 skulls of Meyer included). 



Besides the three depicted séries that put beyond doubt the Papuan dolichocephaly, 

 there are a great number of skulls, originating from the Eastern archipelagoes and the oppo- 

 site New-Guinean coast, with a somewhat higher index. In the literature I met with four 

 séries from the d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago or thereabouts: 1 [S SERGl-skulls with a cranial 

 index averaging J2>\ 34 DucKWORTH-skulls with Ind. cran, ji also [198]; 11 skulls, studied 

 by HAUSER with Ind. cran. 73,1 [67] and 15 CoMRlE-skulls [26] with Ind. cran. 73,5. The SERGI- 

 skulls with an Ind. cran, varying from 65 — 88 are divided as follows: dolichoceph. : 92; 

 mesoceph.: 21, brachyceph. : 5; and those of DUCKWORTH: dolichoceph.: 31; mesoceph. : 3. 

 A. B. MEYER had among 120 Geelvink-Bay skulls 20 mesocephalic and 4 brachycephalic ones; 

 the analogy with SERGI is striking, at least, when they hâve adopted the same division. 



I told already that in the designed Archipelago the cephalic index averaged 75 — JJ 

 in the living. I fear however that this figures are resulting from a far too small number of 

 individuals, as the latter is not mentioned. On the other hand 10 Milne-Bay- and 10 Tube- 



