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The field observations upon which this paper is based were made during 1927-30 when the author was a member of, later leader of, the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. This paper was read before the Anthropology Club of Yale University, November 17, 1931. From the Department of Anatomy, Yale University School of Medicine.