Includes general account of the distribution and migrations of the Oceanians, ethnography of the Australians; local grouping, descent, magic, cannibalism.

Many references to Australian Aborigines throughout - heat adaptation, blood groups, hair, taste, skin & eye colouring; physical characteristics generally.

In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology