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and woolly hair, the frizzled and abundant beard and moustache, were recognised by 

 MM. Hombron and Jacquinot, the naturalists in the second voyage. # Dumoutier, in 

 the Anthropological volume, t described the face as massive ; the eyes sunken ; the nose 

 voluminous, about one-quarter the height of the whole face ; the mouth very large, but 

 with moderately thick lips ; the teeth large, the skin black, the hair woolly. 



In the Atlas to the voyage were represented the busts of six Tasmanians, modelled 

 at Hobart Town under the direction of Dumoutier, four from nature and two from 

 previously modelled busts, also three skulls. The natives were from different parts of 

 the island. In two the woolly hair was in ringlets, which covered the forehead and the 

 cheeks ; in the others it was short. Figures of two of these busts, showing differences 

 in the length of the hair, have been reproduced by de Quatrefages and Hamy in the 

 Crania Ethnica. Dumoutier had subsequently the opportunity of studying the 

 head of a native who died at Hobart Town, which was sent to Paris by M. Eydoux 

 of the corvette Favorite. The hair was frizzled, crisp, woolly, short, and very black ; 

 the beard black, eyebrows black and thick, eyeslit small, sclerotic yellowish ; forehead 

 sloping a little backward, projecting in its middle; parietal regions large, forehead by 

 comparison singularly narrow ; nose short, straight, and forming with the forehead a re- 

 entering angle and acute as if broken at its origin ; large nares with tip of nose large and 

 rounded ; supraciliary ridges very prominent in front of the eyes, which looked small 

 and concealed in the orbits ; jaws not specially projecting ; lips moderately projecting. 

 The head has been figured by Gervais in his work on Zoology and General Palaeontology. 



G. W. Walker, who visited in 1832 the native settlement on Flinders Island, described 

 the people as rather below the average stature of the English ; complexion very dark, 

 almost black, a few of almost a coppery hue, palms and soles lighter than their bodies ; 

 lips generally thick ; nostrils flat and distended ; hair uniformly black and woolly. 

 Breton in 1834, Laplace in 1835, confirmed the description of the skin, hair and features. 

 R. H. Davies recorded in 1846 the customary character of the hair; the bluish-black 

 colour of the skin ; the narrow forehead ; flat nose ; wide nostrils ; prominent jaws ; 

 wide mouth, large strong teeth. Calder in 1874 spoke of the hair being plastered with 

 grease and ochre, so that the locks resembled a bundle of painted ropes. 



Strzelecki in his account of Van Diemen's Land has figured an aboriginal man and 

 woman. Portraits of natives were painted by Mr Duterreau of Hobart Town, some of 

 which have been reproduced in Bonwick's Last of the Tasmanians and in Ling Roth's 

 volume. In the majority the hair was represented short and woolly, but in a few of 

 the men it was longer and arranged in short ringlets. Before the last survivors of the race 

 had disappeared photographs were taken by Woolley in 1866,| including William Lanne 

 the last man, who died in 1869, and Truganina, the last woman, who died in 1 877, which 

 were reproduced in 1871 by Giglioli and subsequently by other writers. They closely 

 corresponded in their facial characters with the excellent description abstracted above 



* " Voyage au Pol Snd," Zoologie, p. 320, t. i., Paris, 1846. t Idem, Anthropologic, p. 134, Paris, 1854. 



I Figured both in Bonwick's Last of the Tasmanians and in Ling Roth's Treatise on the Aborigines of Tasmania. 



