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bility that the so-called New-Guinean Pigmy is not standing apart as an anthropological 

 island in the midst of the real Papuans. 



NEUHAUSS mentions emphatically that his "Kai" did not show other features than the 

 neighbouring tribes. RECHE [165] states the same for the in standing height strongly varying 

 people on the Kais. Aug. River. RAWLING does not mention anything particular of- mouth and 

 nose and says that among the Tapiro prognathy is failing as well as among the coast-Papuans. 

 WlLEIAMSON states that he missed the sloping foreheads, the protruding supra-orbital ridges 

 and the Semitic noses of the real Papuans, which statement differs of my own as I did found 

 those qualifies in the Timorini, though in a little minority. He did not observe any Mon- 

 golie eyes, though he had seen them in the régions nearer to the cast (Papuo-Melanesians, 

 see later). 



When we try to summarize the différent statements, it appears that in the Papuan 

 physiognomy two types are contending for the mastery. Chamaerrhiny and euryprosopy 

 are very common. Moreover there is a more long-faced, long- and convex-nosed élément in 

 the Papuan mixture, more prominent in the long-statured dolichocephalic tribes — conse- 

 quently having its focus on the South coast — but missing nowhere. Curious enough, BEAVER 

 [S] calls the brachycephalic Kiwai-islanders the Jews of New-Guinea, thus the outward appea- 

 rance of this people seems to be less deviating than their form of skull ! 



About the eye the opinions don't diverge. The Mongolie form is limited to the Papuo- 

 Melanesian area, there it is not seldom observed and after the English anthropologists evi- 

 dently due to foreign admixture. Also for the mouth the observations are in harmony with 

 eachother. A large mouth with full lips, as well as a moderate prognathy are common in 

 New-Guinea, though there may be stated a pronounced tendency to the nobler forms, even 

 not missing in the central mountain-ranges. 



The peculiar nose-root that seemed to me so characteristic, I found denoted by several 

 authors. The two skulls, depicted on page 18 and 22 of WlLLIAMSON's Mafulu-book, repre- 

 sent exactly what I stated in the living; the deeply eut nose-saddle is seen under the fiât 

 straight forehead. NEUHAUSS describes the same forehead and nose-root for the Kai; RECHE 

 says about the nose of the Kaiserin-Augusta river inhabitants: "wàhrend ihr Wurzel unter 

 einer vortretenden Stirn tief eingesenkt ist", and also SCHULTZE points to the deeply eut 

 nose-root for the same région. Nevertheless he also observed the higher nose-root, especially 

 among the high-statured tribes. 



It has struck in particular RECHE, when travelling on the Kaiserin-Augusta river that 

 there the two Papuan types exist to a certain extent independently side by side. He con- 

 cludes that it seems as if between a dark, relatively broad-skulled, plump, pigmoid race, 

 éléments of a greater, lighter, finer and more narrow-headed type hâve penetrated. 



LIMBS. 



Finally we will make a few comparisons concerning the limbs. But little material is 

 available on this subject. The follovving table shows the figures of Van DER Sande, SCHEL- 

 LONG, KOCH and Van DEN BROEK, compared with mine. 



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