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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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f theinterior, the stupidDorese, and the good-tempered, cunningPapuas of the south-west coast. Thischaracter extends tothe inhabitants of theneighbouring islandsto east and north.Between the Bis-marck and SolomonIslanders, too, there isa great agreement incharacter; they arestrong, coarse, warlike, but at the same time capable of work and receptive of education. In somedistinctive details, such as the use of coloured bast and grass for ornament, theSolomon Islanders agree with New Guinea. The Trobriand, DEntrecasteaux,and other islands southward to Teste form, with eastermost New Guinea, oneethnographical province. Here we begin to find a higher proportion than in NewGuinea of population partly straight-haired and fair-skinned, with such specificfeatures as the loin-cloth made from the pandanus-\<za.(, the working of small disksof red spo?idylus-she\\ for ornament, the peculiar mode of inserting the axe-head,navigation highly advanced, and cannibalism. Some of these characteristics
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Rattan cuiras throwing-sticks of dark wood, and bark belt, from KaiserWilhelms Land. (Berlin Museum.) THE HISTORY OF MANKIND mark the transition from East New Guinea to the more westerly regions. Alikein New Guinea and the next islands to the eastward there has been developeda style in which the human countenance is rendered by means of two straightlines, one at right angles to the other, to indicate the nose and lower rim of theforehead, a corresponding line giving the mouth. The effect of boredom pro-duced by this physiognomy has been noted as being the effort to portray the

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