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H. J. T. BIJLMER 



so we had better drop it. The mesoprosopy of the Bongko-Papuans is standing alone, their 

 mesorrhiny is only shared by the Leitere-men who, peculiar enough, combine this nose-form 

 with the lowest facial index (so the broadest face). Further it is curious to state that the 

 Leitere-men — the facial height and nasal-index left apart — are showing a fairly great 

 conformity with the Timorini. On the other hand, the différences between the latter and the 

 Torricelli-men are of comparatively little importance. SCHLAGINHAUFEN drew already the 

 attention to the fact that, in their morphological qualifies, the Leitere-Papuans were standing 

 on the side of the Torricelli-men rather than on that of the other coast-tribes ; from my 

 table it appears that the same may be said of them in respect to the Timorini. 



Finally I give a table with the face-measurements concerning some other tribes : 



T R I B E. 



•3 -a 



t3 ^ 



to !3 



"S 



a s 



|» | 



Ta « 



QJ ^ 







c/5 "S 



3^ 



S * 



â *o 



>-* O 



mh 







Humboldt-Bay . . 



10.5 



142 



- 



4.4 



5-3 



11.8 



837 



v. d. Sa.nde. 



Lake Sentani . 



10. — 



14. 1 



- 



4-4 



4-9 



11. 4 



S7.9 



» 



Merauke .... 



11. S 



13.S 



10 6 



3-9 



5-i 



il. 7 



74-5 



Koch. 



Mimika 



11. — 



13.6 



10.8 



3-3 



4-5 



- 



- 



» 



Etna-Bay .... 



11. 2 



132 



10.5 



3-9 



4.8 



- 



Si. 25 



» 



Fak-Fak .... 



"•3 



13-8 



10.2 



- 



- 



- 



- 



n 



Jabim 



- 



13-7 



— 



- 



— 



I I. 



— 



Hagen. 



PHYSIOGNOMY. 



Considering what others hâve said about the outward appearance of the Papuans, it 

 strikes us first of ail, how repeatedly is pointed to the individual variability of their physio- 

 gnomy. Already A. B. MEYER [115] warned against the one-sided conception, prevailing about 

 the Papuan face; he himself distinguished several types as was also done by Hagen in later 

 years. I intend to revert to thèse types in discussing the question of the racial relationship. 

 Yet we will emphasize hère that the famous Papuan type, that with the large sharp-hooked 

 nose, with eyes looking fiercely from under the protruding supra-orbital ridges, is not the 

 most common one, though it lias been reported from the explored régions by the English 

 and Germans, as well as by the Hollanders. 



A very detailed description of the face of the Papuans of the coast of the Finsch- 

 harbour-peninsula is given by SCHELLONG in an essay [184] that belongs to the best we hâve 

 on the Papuans. He characterizes the face as broad and low, (Ind. fac. Jabim 80,8; Ind. fac. 

 Poum 82,5) and calls the nose emphatically : "eine selir platte Stupsnase ? '. And if the Tami- 

 islanders might hâve a finer nose, still "fehlt ihnen das hauptsàchliche Charakteristikum der 

 Papua-Nase, die erhebliche Breite. ebenfalls nicht". The mouth is large, with full, protruding 



