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Several authors hâve already pointed to a Caucasian strain in the Papuans. BECCARI 

 distinguished three types among them, to one of which he ascribed European features. Thèse 

 he supposed to be due to Caucasian or Hindoo admixture [226]. D'ALBERTIS described an 

 Arab type of Papuan and stated that this sometimes had a striking resemblance with the 

 Somali. Perhaps it is not accidentai that also the Somali may be considered as melano- 

 leukodermous crossbreds [226]. NEUHAUSS refers to a Semitic élément in the Papuans; MEYER 

 distinguishes next to a Semitic even a European type. HAGEN states that the black Buka 

 of Bougainville resemble the Dravidian Klings and Tamils and he founds this statement on 

 the direct comparison, as both of the 

 types were présent in his surroundings. 



There is however no unanimity 

 on the subject, where to place the 

 Papuans in the anthropological System. 

 Yet it appears to me that the différent 

 conceptions are less diverging than one 

 would suppose at first sight, especially 

 when placing the Negritoes more in 

 the fore-ground than was possible a 

 quarter of a century ago. Having set 

 myself to give a description of a small- 

 statured Papuan tribe, I took as a matter 

 of course to studying those smaller 

 tribes. If the frizzly-haired Melanesians 

 and Papuans should be crossbreds, 

 the only élément from which they 

 might hâve taken their hairform is the 

 Negrito. The colour of the latter is also 

 fairly the same as that of the former. 

 REED writes about his Negritoes : "The 

 colour of the skin is a dark chocolaté 

 brown rather than black, and on un- 

 exposed portions of the body approach- 

 es the yellowish tint of the Malayan". 

 HADDON says in [238] about the Anda- 



manese : "The skin has several shades of colour between bronze or dark copper, sooty and 

 black, the predominating colour being a dull leaden hue like that of a black-leaded stove". 

 R. Martin states about the Semang that the skin of the chest is dark brown with reddish 

 tinges, while that of the face is mainly dark brown, the remainder being médium brown, 

 with reddish or pure brown tinges. Thus, the skincolour of "the little Negroes of the East" 

 (HADDON) seems to be fairly correspondent with that of the "taller Negroes" of New-Guinea 

 and Melanesia. 



Also the reddish tinges of the hair appear to be not only a peculiarity of the Papuans. 

 REED states simply discoloration when writing: "The headhair is uniformly of a dirty black 



20. Woman and children, Timorini, Swartvalley. 



Auct. phot. 



