The Mafulu Part 19

Semang 101

Calculated by me from average of actual measurements of 5 people given by Skeat and Blagden (_Pagan Races, &c._, p. 577).

Aetas ?

Reed records highly varying indices, the bulk of which were hyperplatyrhine (87.9-108.8), and nearly all the others of which were ultraplatyrhine (109 and over) (_Negritos of Zambales_, pp. 34, 35).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs 80.9

Calculated by me from Captain Rawling's actual figures.

Mafulu 84.3

_Colour of Skin._

Descriptions of this are so general, and so much depends in each case upon the relative meanings attached by each writer to the terms used by him, that I prefer to depend as regards the Andamanese, Semang, and Aetas upon Dr. Haddon's descriptions, which are doubtless based upon his comparison of those given in previous literature.

Andamanese

Very dark (_Races of Man, &c._, p. 9).

Semang

Dark chocolate brown, approximating to black. (_Ibid._).

Aetas

Dark sooty brown (_Ibid._).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs

Brown (Rawling, _Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).

Mafulu

Dark sooty brown.

_Texture of Hair._

This is frizzly in all cases, as with other negroids, the word "woolly"

often used being, I imagine, intended to imply frizzly.

_Colour of Hair._

This being a point which seems to me to be rather interesting, I propose to quote various descriptions.

Andamanese

Varies from sooty black to dark brown, old gold, red and light brown; and, though these may be the colours of individual hairs, the general appearance is sooty black or yellowish-brown.

Portman (_History of our Relations with the Andamanese_, p. 30).

Varies between black, greyish-black and sooty, the last perhaps predominating.

Man (_The Andaman Islanders_, p. II).

Black, with a reddish tinge.

Haddon (_Races of Man, &c._, p. 9).

Semang

Brownish-black, not a bluish-black like that of the Malays.

Skeat and Blagden (_Pagan Races, &c.,_ p. 46).

Brownish-black.

Haddon (_Races of Man, &c.,_ p. 9).

Aetas

Brown-black, shining.

Semper (_Journal of Anthropology_ for October, 1870, p. 135).

Rich dark brown.

Writer of article on Semper's work (_Id_.).

Varying from a dark seal-brown to black.

Meyer (_Journal of Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, vol. 25, p. 174).

Dirty black colour, in some instances _sun-burned at top to_ a reddish-brown. [The italics are mine.]

Reed (_Negritos of Zambales_, p. 35).

Black, sometimes tinged with red.

Haddon (_Races of Man_, &c., P. 9).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs.

Black.

Rawling (_Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).

The hair of some of the pygmies was decidedly _dark_ brown.

Statement made to me by Mr. Walter Goodfellow.

Hair of 3 men (out of 24) distinctly not black, a sort of dirty rusty brown or rusty black colour; all others black-haired.

Extract supplied to me by Dr. Wollaston from his Diary.