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Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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thana pretty Germanpeasant girl-The hair in itsfiner texture andtendency to formwaves or evenringlets, departsfrom the coarsestraight Mongol-ian form. Thebest term for itis crisp hair.Occasionally wigsare met with,sticking up andtowzled after thePapuan fashion.The colour of thehair ranges fromblack to chestnutbrown. A lightertinge, particu-larly rusty-brownwisps runningthrough dark hair, and reddishor yellowish col-oration of thetips, proceedsfrom frequentbathing and pow-dering with lime.Albinism seemsto be rare. The development of hair on the face and body is less in straight-haired than incurly-haired persons. The bodily strength of the Polynesians is not very great ; the small amountof labour which many of them perform hardly tends to a thorough developmentof the body. Even the most stalwart-looking Maoris possess, on the average,only a fraction of an Englishmans lifting power ; nor do they excel in speed offoot. Arms and legs run rather to fat than to muscle. A notable corpulence
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Samoan woman. (From a photograph in the Godeffroy Album THE POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 187 is frequent as a result of indolence. The average weight of the men in theGilbert Islands is, according to Finsch, about 12 stone, the maximum a littleover 15. In stature the Polynesians hold a medium position. Finschs measure-ments give 5 feet 1 1 inches as the highest figure for a man of the GilbertIslands, and 5 feet 3^ inches for a woman of Upolu, one of the most powerfuland stoutest of Polynesian women. The minima fall just below 5 feet. Longago G. Forster said of the Easter Islanders, who live under conditions calculatedto stunt them : We did not find among them a single man who could be calledtall. In the Marshall Archipelago the natives of the more northerly islands,which are less visited by strangers, and produce food in greater abundance, aremen of a taller and stronger stamp ; while the great majority of those in the

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