_Geographical Journal_, Vol. 16, p.291)
to the finding by the Mission Fathers of "another type of native,
evidently an example of the convex-nosed Papuan," in the upper waters
of the Alabula river. I gather from the habitat of these natives that
they must have been either Ambo or Oru Lopiku. I should be surprised
to hear the Semitic nose was common in either of those areas.

[31] Dr. Seligmann, in speaking of the Koiari people, refers to an
occasional reddish or gingery tinge of facial hair (_Melanesians of
British New Guinea,_, p. 29). I never noticed this among the Mafulu.

[32] Since writing the above, I have learnt that some of the dwarf
people found by the expedition into Dutch New Guinea organised by
the British Ornithologists' Union had brown hair. Mr. Goodfellow
tells me that "the hair of some of the pygmies was decidedly _dark_
brown"; and Dr. Wollaston gives me the following extract from his
diary for March 1, 1911, relating to twenty-four pygmies then under
observation:--"Hair of three men distinctly _not_ black, a sort of
dirty rusty brown or rusty black colour--all others black-haired."

[33] This plate and the plates of dancing aprons were produced by
first drawing the objects, and then photographing the drawings. It
would have been more satisfactory if I could have photographed the
objects themselves. But they were much crumpled, and I was advised
that with many of them the camera would not indicate differences of
colour, and that in one or two of them even the design itself would
not come out clearly.

[34] Dr. Stapf, to whom I showed one of the armlets, No. 4, the
materials of which are said to be the same as those used for this belt,
said that the split cane-like material is a strip from the periphery
of the petiole or stem of a palm, and that the other material is
sclerenchyma fibre from the petiole or rhizome of a fern, and not
that of a creeping plant. I may say that I felt a doubt at the time
as to the complete accuracy of the information given to me concerning
the vegetable materials used for the manufacture of various articles,
and there may well be errors as to these.

[35] Dr. Stapf, to whom I showed one of these belts, says that it is
made of the separated woody strands from the stem of a climbing plant
(possibly one of the Cucurbitaceae or Aristolochiaceae).

[36] Dr. Stapf, having inspected one of the belts, thinks this material
is composed of split strips of sclerenchyma fibre from th