Hair Color
| Black | Dk. Brn | Med. Brn | Lt. Brn | Red-Brn | Total | |
| No. % | No. % | No. % | No. % | No. % | ||
| Total sample | 757 93 | 31 5 | 1 0 | 0 0 | 18 2 | 807 |
| Interior | 145 95 | 8 5 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 153 |
| East | 114 95 | 6 5 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 120 |
| Coast | 193 92 | 11 5 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 5 2 | 204 |
| N.W. | 70 89 | 5 6 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 4 5 | 75 |
| Fiji II | 118 91 | 9 7 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 3 2 | 130 |
| Solomons | 55 65 | 26 31 | 0 0 | 3 4 | 0 0 | 84 |
| Tonga | 0 94 | 0 4 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 |
Black hair is the usual color, although 5 per cent are described as dark brown and a few red-brown. This latter variation is a rufous color (reddish-brown) and it may be a little more frequent than the data indicate because the Fijians frequently dye their hair with a substance extracted from mangrove bark. This intensifies the usual blackness of the hair and adds a satisfying gloss. More sophisticated natives have access to modern hair dye and lacking this, some have been known to resort to black shoe polish.
Hair bleaching is no longer practiced in Fiji.
The hair of the Solomons Islands is not so uniformly black, nearly a third have dark-brown hair and a few are light brown.
Eye Color
| Black | Dk. Brn | Med. Brn | Lt. Brn | Total | |
| No. % | No.% | No. % | No. % | ||
| Fiji I | 2 0 | 550 68 | 257 31 | 4 1 | 813 |
| Interior | 0 0 | 131 86 | 22 14 | 0 0 | 153 |
| East | 0 0 | 71 59 | 48 40 | 1 1 | 120 |
| Coast | 0 0 | 127 61 | 81 39 | 1 0 | 209 |
| N.W | 1 1 | 53 67 | 25 32 | 0 0 | 79 |
| Fiji II | 0 0 | 130 98 | 0 0 | 2 2 | 132 |
| Solomons | 0 0 | 85 100 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 85 |
| Tonga | 0 3 | 0 94 | 0 0 | 0 3 | 0 |
A little more than two-thirds of Fijians' eyes are described as dark brown. The remaining third have medium-brown eyes. There were four individuals who were light brown. Howells, with his Fijian series, is more generous with the darker designation; he designated 98 per cent as dark brown and 2 per cent light brown. His Solomons sample is described as dark brown without exception. The Tongan data also is recorded as more uniformly dark brown than my Fijians.
The Fijians of the interior of Viti Levu have more deeply pigmented eyes than the others; 86 per cent are classed as dark brown and only 14 per cent medium brown.