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_.).
Varying from a dark seal-brown to black.
Meyer (_Journal of Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, vol. 25, p. 174).
Dirty black colour, in some instances _sun-burned at top to_ a reddish-brown. [The italics are mine.]
Reed (_Negritos of Zambales_, p. 35).
Black, sometimes tinged with red.
Haddon (_Races of Man_, &c., P. 9).
Dutch New Guinea dwarfs.
Black.
Rawling (_Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).
The hair of some of the pygmies was decidedly _dark_ brown.
Statement made to me by Mr. Walter Goodfellow.
Hair of 3 men (out of 24) distinctly not black, a sort of dirty rusty brown or rusty black colour; all others black-haired.
Extract supplied to me by Dr. Wollaston from his Diary.