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EXPLANATION TO THE PLATES. 
t!ie origiua], hut in every other respect it must be eon- 
sidcrctl as an accurate representation of a full-groini 
male Outnnata, The instrument in his right hand is a 
heavy two-handed club, and that held over the head is 
oiie of the banihoo tubes from which the natives eject 
the smoke-like material which astonished Captain Cook 
aud his compRnions. The practice is noticed at pages 
B3to40 
5. Aheta, or Negrito, of the PhiUppines, from a Plate in 
Mallafs " Pliihppines," &c. The. Mountain Papuans 
of the Moluccas are much more slightly built than the 
Ahetas arc here represented. See the portrait in Sir 
S, Eafflefl' " HistoiT of Java/* aud in Mr. Crawfurd's 
"Hbtory of the Indian Archipelago." In the year 
1832, the author of this work was a fellow- voyager with 
a Papuan youth from the interior of Gilolo, who was an 
exact couuterp&rt of the figure given by B^^es and 
Crawfiird 
C. Heads of Papuans aud North Australians. Figa, ], 2, 
3, 4, 10, 11, and 12, are from portraits by Messrs. 
Van OoTt and Van Ttaalten, the artists to the Dutch 
Expedition. Tlie otliers are selected from profdes taken 
by the author of tliis work, wMch the artist haa very 
accumteiy transferred to the Plate. — Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 
are profdes of Outanatas. The arched nose of Fig. 3 is 
by no means an exaggerated feature, although the more 
common form is that shown in Fig, 3. In Figs, 1 and % 
the airi*t as well as the septum of the nose, are bored, a 
custom which has not been observed in any other tribe of 
Papuans. — Fig. 4, is a portrait of a native of the interior 
in the neighbourhood of Triton JBaj, If the original re- 
presented the general characteristics of the tribe, and was 
not selected on aeconnt of a peculiarity in his features 
and ap}>earance, Dr. Miiller certainly has grounds for his 
opinion that the inland natives dllfer from those of the 
coast.— Fig, 5, is a prolile of a native of Karas^ on the 
