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To extend to all the blacks of the western islands the name 
Papuan * * * § which has long been applied to the black people of 
New Guinea, and some other portions of the Indian Archi- 
pelago. They have already been called Papuans by some 
writers, but are generally known as Melanesians. I believe 
these people are essentially like the Papuans of the Indian 
Archipelago, and that one name may serve for both. 
For the natives of Eastern Polynesia and New Zealand I 
proposed an entirely new name, because there is no good 
general term by which they are known. This is Sawaiori. f 
For those living on the north-western islands I also proposed 
a new* name, viz., Td capon. X The adoption of these names 
may be objected to by some ethnologists ; but as my reasons 
for proposing them have been given in the paper mentioned, 
which will shortly be published, I shall not defend them 
here. In the present paper I shall use these names, giving, 
however, the others by w'hich the people have been hitherto 
known. 
I. The Papuans. 
Melanesians, Negritos, Neyrito-Polynesians, and Black 
Polynesians. 
In colour these islanders are mostly black, or nearly so ; 
but not of a jet black. Some are. much lighter than others. 
It was long popularly supposed that their hair grew in small 
tufts. This was, however, a mistake which probably arose 
from the manner in which many of them are accustomed to 
dress it. On some islands the men collect it into small 
bunches, and carefully bind each bunch round with fine 
vegetable fibre from the roots up to within about two inches 
of the ends. Dr. Turner, in his " Nineteen Years in Polynesia ,” 
gives a good description of this process. § He counted the 
number of bunches on tho head of a young man, and found 
nearly seven hundred. He also calls attention to tho strango 
* “ Papnah, frizzled, woolly-headed, having many natural curls.” — 
Marsden’s Malay Dictionary. “ Papuwah, frizzled; the island of New 
Guinea ; an inhabitant of that island, being of the Negrito race.” — Crawfurd’s 
Malay Dictionary. 
t From Sarmo&, Ha-«m-‘i, and Ma-ort, the names of three representative 
peoples belonging to the race . 
X From Tara-wa, and Pow-ape, names of two representative islands in the 
Gilbert and Caroline groups respectively. 
§ Pp. 77 and 78. Opposite to p. 76 is the figure of a Tanna man, which 
may be compared with the sculpture on p. 78. 
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