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H. J. T. BIJLMER 







St. Height. 



Rel. width of 

 the span. 



Rel. length 

 of ann. 



Author 



Humboldt 



Bay 



163,3 cm. 



107,2 cm. 



46,1 



Van der Sande 



Lake Sentani 



159-7 



106,— 



46,2 



» 



Jabim 





160,6 



106,1 



46,9 



SCHELLONG 



Pou m 





154-3 



104,5 



46,5 



„ 



Merauke 





167,2 



106,5 



47-S 



Koch 



Pesegem 





152,4 



106,4 



47-1 



Van den Broek 



Timorini 





154-7 





46,9 



BlJLMER 



The différent values fairly agrée. It is worth mentioning that Sarasin gives for his 

 Vedda a rel. armlength of 47, — . The four authors, mentioned above, call the Papuans long- 

 armed, which corresponds with the statement of Martin in his manual. Consequently the span 

 of arms is rather large. As I thought the taking of this measure subject to considérable 

 mistakes, I refrained from it. 



As for the leg-measures, it is very difficult to make comparisons. Van DER SANDE 

 measured the height of the trochanter; in the measure-lists, placed at Van DEN BROEK's 

 disposai, the perineal height was taken, while I measured the height of the pelvic spine. In 

 the taking of leg-measurements there is already a big chance of making serious mistakes, but 

 when moreover the results must be reduced to get comparable figures, their value becomes 

 highly problematic. VAN DEN BROEK [13] calculâtes for his Pesegem with 52,2 — the length 

 of leg taken as height of pelvic spine, minus 4 cm. — nearly the same relative length of 

 leg as I for my Timorini, (52,6) and states that therefore the leg is rather short. However, 

 this is a subjective conclusion, as in the table on page 3 1 1 of Martin's manual, this value appears 

 to be of moderate size. I think it safer to refrain from considérations on this precarious subject. 



The detailed description of the various qualities of the many Nevv-Guinean tribes has 

 exposed that the peoples, to whom we are used to apply the name of Papuans, are far from 

 exhibiting a well-defined type. Nevertheless, though themselves constituting a composed 

 mixture, they can be distinguished from those tribes, in which foreign admixture has recently 

 taken place. The English investigators traced the line between true Papuans and the peoples 

 that hâve submitted Oceanic influence, between Cape Possession (South-coast) and Cape 

 Nelson (North-coast). SELIGMANN names the mixed tribes eastward of that borderline Papuo- 

 Melanesians, subdividing them in the Western Papuo-Melanesians and the Eastern Papuo- 

 Melanesians, more especially called Massim. 



In West-New-Guinea there is undoubtedly admixture of Indonesian — and perhaps 

 also Malay — blood : the tribes on the North- and West-coasts of the Bird's-Head are far 

 from being pure. J. C. VAN Eerde [39] pointed out that we can safely state that the 

 Indonesian — resp. Malay — influence has not reached beyond the Geelvink-Bay in the 

 North and the Oetakwa-river in the South-VVest. In this study I did not take into considération 

 thèse Papuo-Indonesian crossbreds. 



Especially the low-statured central tribes need nearer investigation. In the West, in 

 the "neck" of the "Bird's Head", where the Jarre central mountain-rançes corne near to the 



