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Capes Melville and Grafton, Barrow Point, Princess Charlotte Bay, Palm Isles and from 

 the Coen, Herberton, and Chillagoe districts. In all the hair was black, though in some 

 deeper in tint than in others. In the men the locks, usually from 4 to 8 cm. long, 

 frequently consisted of a single loose curl, though in others the hairs were straight. 

 In the women, again, the hair was wavy and loosely curled ; two specimens measured 

 about 25 cm. (10 inches) when the curl was extended. The breadth of the curl in 

 the specimens varied from 7 to 16 mm. In one specimen the lock, 10 cm. long, was 

 formed of straight hair. The hair of the infant, said to be three weeks old, was 4 cm. 

 long and showed a tendency to curl. 



Fig. 21.— Australian. 6. 



The specimens of hair from North Queensland shared, therefore, with those which 

 I have described from South Australia, Victoria and West Australia in the common 

 character of colour, in being either straight, or wavy, or in loose curls. In Dr Walter 

 Roth's collection from such stations in Cape York Peninsula as the Normandy, 

 Batavian, Musgrave and Lynd districts, the Coen, Capes Melville and Grafton and 

 Princess Charlotte Bay, special attention was paid to the characters of the hair, as, 

 from the proximity of Cape York to New Guinea, a migration of Papuans to the 

 north of Australia might have been possible and a consequent intermixture with the 

 Australian aborigines occasioning modifications in the hair. The natives of these 

 stations showed, however, no sign of hair frizzly or woolly in its character. 



None of the specimens above referred to gave evidence of artificial dressing of the 

 linir. A specimen from a native of Pink River, near Charlotte Waters, presented by 



