. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . C. — Tasmanian. D.—Tasm an ian. Papuas, of New Guinea. New Guinea is the largest of all these islands after New Holland. Numerous navigators,toe old as well as the living, have described this people at various localities on the coast COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES, 435 Fig. New Guinea-man. FlQ. The tribes appear everywhere to be substantially the same:skin more or less black, featu
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . C. — Tasmanian. D.—Tasm an ian. Papuas, of New Guinea. New Guinea is the largest of all these islands after New Holland. Numerous navigators,toe old as well as the living, have described this people at various localities on the coast COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES, 435 Fig. New Guinea-man. FlQ. The tribes appear everywhere to be substantially the same:skin more or less black, features Negro, hair woolly andformed into enormous tufts. This (Fig. 287) is a fair specimen of the inhabitantsof New Guinea, which not only presents the Negro com-plexion, and features like the Australian, but also thewoolly hair. We may consider this skull an average typeof the Papuan race. Jffarfours, or Alforians. In Malaysia, under the names of Harfours, Alfours, Ha-raforas, &c, have been designated the inhabitants of theinterior of the large islands, or mountain regions. But great diversity exists in the type of these families; and much confusion in descriptions. They seemgenerally to be a true Negro race, of the lowest order; and from their position in the inte-rior, no less than from their degraded condition, they are, most probably, the true abori-gines of many of these islands, who have beeniriven back by immigrants from other skull (Fig. 288) suff
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