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of which is 5 "3 cm., though it can be stretched to 9 cm. (3|- inches) ; its average 

 breadth is about 3 mm. (fig. 19). Each lock consisted of a compact spiral bundle of 

 hairs, which disengaged themselves at the sides and free ends, aud assumed the form 

 of short narrow ringlets. I owe to the late Dr Joseph Dougall, who had gained 

 the confidence of the natives, a photograph of a group of thirty islanders of both 

 sexes, in some of whom the hair was present, though in others the scalp was bare 



Fig. 19. — Andaman Islands locks of hair. 



as if shorn. The dwarf stature is well seen in contrast with that of Dr Dougall, 

 who was a tall man, standing in the group (fig. 34). 



Semang. — A tribe living in the interior of the Malay Peninsula described by 

 Nelson Annandale and H. C. Robinson.* The Museum is indebted to the former 

 for a lock of hair of a member of the Hami tribe, Jalor. It was black in colour, 

 woolly, only 2 '2 cm. long, but could when stretched be somewhat elongated. The 

 individual hairs were spirally twisted (fig. 20). 



Fig. 20. —Semang locks of hair. 



The Museum does not contain specimens of the hair of the Aetas of the Philippine 

 Islands or of the pygmies in Central Africa. The question of the presence of Negrito 

 pygmies in New Guinea, which long formed a subject of discussion, has now been 

 definitely settled. In 1910 Captain Rawling and Mr A. F. R. Wollaston dis- 

 covered and described in their respective volumes of travel a tribe of pygmies in 

 the Mimika River district at Tapiro, near the Nassau Mountains in Dutch New 

 Guinea,! with short, black woolly hair, black whiskers and beard, chocolate-coloured 



* Fasciculi Malayensis, "Anthropology," part i., 1903. 



t See their books on the New Guinea Pygmies and Papuans, op. cit., p. 317, footnote, and Bibliography. 



