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TO ethnologists, the Papuan race is one of the most interesting in the world. Whether the Papuan represents a distinct type of mankind or not is doubted by some observers, though the balance of evidence is in favour of that conclusion. This splendid collection of fifty-four plates reproduced from photographs, and representing about six hundred portraits of individuals, should be of great assistance in studying the similarities and differences between the typical Papuan, and the natives of southern and eastern New Guinea. The photographs illustrate the natives of New Britain, the Duke of York Islands, New Ireland, Admiralty Islands, Solomon Islands, German New Guinea, and Dutch New Guinea. They represent the people as they are ordinarily seen, and also decorated with the strange costumes assumed at feasts. Particularly striking are the pictures of natives of New Britain adorned for one of their Dukduk dances, and of the ingenious basket-work traps used by the fishermen. Ethnology will benefit by the publication of this collection of really excellent pictures.
Album von Pafúa-Typen.
Von A. B. Meyer R. Parkinson. (Dresden: Stengel und Markert, 1894.)
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Album von Pafúa-Typen. Nature 51, 174 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051174b0
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