This figure is calculated
by me from the actual length and breadth
given by Captain Rawling (Geographical
Journal, vol. 38, p. 245).
Mafulu 80
Nasal Index.
Andamanese ?
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.).