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12 cm. In another specimen, No. 55, in the Museum, the hair had been removed 

 from the scalp. 



Captain Cook described* the Maoris as he saw them in 1770. They were rather 

 above the ordinary size, of a very dark-brown colour, the face tattooed, black hair, 

 thin black beards and white teeth. In the men the hair was long, sometimes combed 

 on to the crown of the head ; t in the women it was at times long, at others cut 

 short. Numerous figures of the tattooed heads of Maoris are given by Major-General 

 Robley in his profusely illustrated work,| a few from life, though mostly from dried 

 heads, in some of which the hair was short and straight ; in others a little longer and 

 in large loose curls ; in others long, wavy and ending in loose curls. In no sense 

 could the hair be described as short and woolly in the sense in which the term is used 

 for the hair in the Negro, or long and frizzled as in Melanesians. 



Easter Island. — This island was visited by Captain Cook in 1774,§ who gave a 

 portrait of a man and a woman. He described the hair as black, worn long by the 

 women, and sometimes tied on the crown of the head ; the men had the hair of the 

 head and beard cut short. They tattooed the skin of both face and body, and in 

 colour, features and language bore affinity to the islanders further west. Later 

 visitors have also called the hair black or dark brown, straight, smooth or wavy. 

 In 1902 Dr A. B. Meyer presented me with a coil of hair from a native of this island. || 

 Its colour was dark brown approaching to black ; it was neither curly nor frizzled but 

 smooth and silky. Its characters, therefore, were Polynesian and not Melanesian. 

 The skin, it is said, was not black, but light brown when not exposed to the sun. 



Hair of Scalp, its Implantation, Form and Structure. 



The hair in man, in its mode of implantation in the scalp and in its form and 

 structure, has been well described in text-books on histology. The descriptions have 

 been chiefly based on the study of the hair in Europeans. Several copiously illus- 

 trated works in which an account is given of the form and structure of the hair in a 

 few non-European races, and in certain mammals, have also been published, viz. : — 



W. Waldbykr, Atlas der menschlichen und lierischen Haare, so wie der dhnlichen Fasergebilde, 

 Lahr, 1884. 



Hans Friedenthal, " Entwicklung, Bau und Entstehung der Haare," Lieferung IV., Beitrdge 

 zur Naturgeschichte des Menschen, Jena, 1908. 



Hans Friedenthal, Tierhaaratlas, Jena, 1911. 



Gustav Fritsgh, Das Haupthaar und seine Bildungsstdtte hei den liassen des Menschen, 

 Berlin, 1912. 



* Journal of the First Voyage, edited by Captain Wharton, p. 218, London, 1893. 



t In vol. iii. of Hawkesworte's Edition of Cook's First Voyage (1773), plate xiii. p. 49, a tattooed head is depicted 

 with the hair dressed in this way. 



| Moko or Maori Tattooing, London, 1896. Fig. 172 is very like my fig. 23 on p. 328. 



§ Second Voyage, vol. i. Plates Nos. xxv., xlvi., p. 290, 1777. 



|| Abhand. u. Bericht. Kbnig. Zool. u. Anthr. Museums zu Dresden, Bd. ix., 1901. 



