Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 24.—Aheta (Xegrito), PhiLppine Islands. ridged, and the nose being more prominent, even aquiline—a striking contrast to the African. The Melanesians aboutNew Guinea are called Papuas from their woolly hair (Malay/«/z/ze/a^=frizzed), which is often grown into enormousmops. The great variety of colour in Melanesia, fromthe full brown-black down to chocolate or nut-brown, shows III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 91 that there has been much crossing with hghter mixture is evident in the coast-people of Fiji, wherethe d
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 24.—Aheta (Xegrito), PhiLppine Islands. ridged, and the nose being more prominent, even aquiline—a striking contrast to the African. The Melanesians aboutNew Guinea are called Papuas from their woolly hair (Malay/«/z/ze/a^=frizzed), which is often grown into enormousmops. The great variety of colour in Melanesia, fromthe full brown-black down to chocolate or nut-brown, shows III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 91 that there has been much crossing with hghter mixture is evident in the coast-people of Fiji, wherethe dark Melanesian race is indeed predominant, but crossedwith the lighter Polynesian race to which much of the lan-guage and civilization of the islands belongs. Lastly, theTasmanians were a distant outlying population belonging tothe eastern Fig. 25.—Melanesians. In Australia, that vast island-continent, whose plants andanimals are not those of Asia, but seem as it were survivorsfrom a long-past period of the earths history, there appearsa thin population of roaming savages, strongly distinct fromthe blacker races of New Guinea at the north, and Tas-mania at the south. The Australians, with skin of dark 92 ANTHROPOLOGY. [chap.
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