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Dr Ramsay Smith, consisted, however, of two locks, 30 cm. and 20 cm. long respec- 

 tively. Each was formed of three strands plaited together, and in each strand the 



Fig. 22. — Australian. 



hairs were twisted on each other, the lock was very slender, only 3 mm. broad. 

 From the length of the locks the specimen was probably from the head of a woman. 



Polynesians. 



By this term one understands the Maoris of New Zealand and the aborigines of 

 groups of islands across the Pacific from Tonga in the west to Easter Island, and 

 as far north as the Sandwich Islands. Their chief physical characters are yellowish- 

 brown skin, brachycephalic heads, average stature of men 5 feet 9 or 10 inches, hair 

 black, long, straight, wavy or curly. 



Maoris. — The University Museum contains six dried heads, the faces of which 

 have been tattooed and the hair of the scalp preserved. In one, xxxi. A, No. 51, that 

 of a chief elaborately tattooed, the hair was parted along the middle and fell in 

 large locks down the sides and back of the head and neck ; at first it was wavy 

 and it then formed loose curls which had reached the shoulders (fig. 23). The strands 



