The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea

by Robert Wood Williamson

[4] Seligmann’s Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 16.

[5] Geographical Journal, Vol. XXVI I., p. 235.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Geographical Journal, Vol. XXVII., p. 235.

[8] P. 236.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Geographical Journal, Vol. XXVII., p. 235.

Conclusion

What is the origin of these Mafulu people, with their short stature, small and somewhat rounded heads, slight but active build, sooty brown skin, and frizzly hair, predominantly brown in colour, and with their comparatively primitive ideas of organisation, and simple arts and crafts?