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compact pencil-like bundle, at the free end of which the hairs were again wavy. # 

 At the scalp the hairs were brownish black, but they changed to reddish brown in 

 the lock itself, t Another specimen consisting of separate hairs was also given by 

 Dr Meyer : in it the longest hairs, when straightened, were about 17 cm., and their 

 curly and wavy character was distinct. The colour was brown-black. 



Papuan Gulf. — I am indebted to Professor A. C. Haddon for two cuttings of 



Fig. 11. — Lock, Papuan Gulf. 



hair, one of which he took off a dance mask, whilst the other was removed from an 

 artificial wig, which had probably formed part of a dance mask. In the latter the 

 hairs had been cut very short ; they were loosely matted together and were spirally 

 coiled. In the former the hairs were partly matted and curly, but one lock was 

 distinct, between 6 and 7 cm. long and curled (fig. ll). Both specimens were 

 brownish black in colour. 



Negros. 



The hairs on the head of the African negro and his descendants in America and 

 elsewhere are arranged in short, compact, black tufts or locks, about 5 mm. in diameter, 

 the hairs in which are spirally coiled. The arrangement is best observed from the 

 norma verticalis of the head (fig. 12). Over a large part of the surface the locks 

 were closely compacted together like a mat, and the hairs in given areas, as they 

 emerged from the scalp, at once proceeded to form the constituent parts of their 

 respective tufts. On the sides of the head the tufts were further apart, and the 

 surface of the scalp between the locks was hairy, equally with that in superposi- 

 tion to which the locks were situated, so that no spots of noticeable size bare 

 of hair were seen. Locks of hair, conformable to this character, constitute the 

 appearance to which the term woolly was originally applied and is the typical 

 arrangement. 



The Museum contains a characteristic negro's head from which the above descrip- 

 tion has been written ; also several locks of hair from other individuals which have 



* Meyer, A. B., Mitth. Anthro. Ges., Wien, vol. iv. Nos. 3, 4, 1874. 



t Rich. Neuhauss has written in Zeitsch. fur Etlmologie, 45th Jahrgang, Heft iii., 1913, a paper on the Red Blond 

 Hair of the Papuans. He recognises bleaching of the hair by lime, but states that in addition to black pigment 

 granules a diffused reddish and yellow substance is present in the hair of Papuans. Blond hairs may sometimes co- 

 exist along with black hairs. 



