#Present Range.# Papuasian: _East Malaysia, New Guinea, Melanesia_; Tasmanian: _extinct_; Negrito: _Andamans, Malay Peninsula, Philippines, New Guinea_. #Hair.# Papuasian: _black, frizzly, mop-like, beard scanty or absent_; Tasmanian: _black, shorter and less mop-like than Papuasian_; Negrito: _short, woolly or frizzly, black, sometimes tinged with brown or red_. #Colour.# All: _very deep shades of chocolate brown, often verging on black, a very constant character, lighter shades showing mixture_. #Skull.# Papuasian: _extremely dolichocephalic (68-73) and high, but very variable in areas of mixture. (70-84)_; Tasmanian: _dolichocephalic or mesaticephalic (75)_; Negrito: _brachycephalic (80-85)_. #Jaws.# Papuasian: _moderately or not at all prognathous_; Tasmanian _and_ Negrito: _generally prognathous_. #Cheek-bones.# All: _slightly prominent or even retreating_. #Nose.# Papuasian: _large, straight, generally aquiline in true Papuans_; Tasmanian _and_ Negrito: _short, flat, broad, wide nostrils (platyrrhine) with large thick cartilage_. #Eyes.# All: _moderately large, round and black or very deep brown, with dirty yellowish cornea, generally deep-set with strong overhanging arches_. #Stature.# Papuasian _and_ Tasmanian: _above the average, but variable, with rather wide range from 1.62 m. to 1.77 or 1.82 m. (5 ft. 4 in. to 5 ft. 10 in. or 6 ft.)_; Negrito: _undersized, but taller than African Negrillo, 1.37 m. to 1.52 m. (4. ft. 6 in. to 5 ft.)_. #Temperament.# Papuasian: _very excitable, voluble and laughter-loving, fairly intelligent and imaginative_; Tasmanian: _distinctly less excitable and intelligent, but also far less cruel, captives never tortured_; Negrito: _active, quick-witted or cunning within narrow limits, naturally kind and gentle_. #Speech.# Papuasian _and_ Tasmanian: _agglutinating with postfixes, many stock languages in West Papuasia, apparently one only in East Papuasia (Austronesian)_; Negrito: _scarcely known except in Andamans, where agglutination both by class prefixes and by postfixes has acquired a phenomenal development_. #Religion.# Papuasian: _reverence paid to ancestors, who may become beneficent or malevolent ghosts_; _general belief in_ mana _or supernatural power_; _no priests or idols_; Negrito: _exceedingly primitive_; _belief in spirits, sometimes vague deities_. #Culture.# Papuasian: _slightly developed_; _agriculture somewhat advanced (N. Guinea, N. Caledonia)_; _considerable artistic taste and fancy shown in the wood-carving of houses, canoes, ceremonial objects, etc._ All others: _at the lowest hunting stage, without arts or industries, save the manufacture of weapons, ornaments, baskets, and rarely (Andamanese) pottery_. Main Divisions.