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or had migrated to the Papuan gulf. If the decorated and 
sculptured crania are to he regarded, in many instances at least, 
as the skulls of enemies, its original possessor may have come from 
some place on the south-eastern seaboard, where there is evidence 
of the mingling of a brachycephalic Polynesian people with the 
dolichocephalic Papuo-Melanesian race. 
