MELANESIA  , one of the three See also:

• GREAT

great divisions of the oceanic islands in the central and western Pacific . It embraces the See also:

• BISMARCK
• BISMARCK, OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON, PRINCE

Bismarck See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

Archipelago, N.E. of New See also:

• GUINEA

Guinea, the Louisiade, See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon, See also:

• SANTA

Santa Cruz, New See also:

• HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES

Hebrides and See also:

• LOYALTY

Loyalty islands, New See also:

• CALEDONIA

Caledonia, See also:

• FIJI
• FIJI (Viii)

Fiji and intervening small See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups . The name (Gr . See also:

• OHM, GEORG SIMON (1787-1854)

Ohm, See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, and *tor, See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island) is derived from the black See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of the prevailing native See also:

• RACE

race, the Papuan and its allied tribes . Many of these differ widely from the See also:

• PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent race, but all the Melanesian peoples have certain See also:

• COMMON

common characteristics which distinguish them sharply from the inhabitants of Poly., nesia and See also:

• MICRONESIA (from Gr. µitcpbs, small, and viiaos, island)

Micronesia . Their See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization is See also:

• LOWER

lower . The Melanesians are mostly " See also:

• NEGROID

negroid," nearly black, with crisp, See also:

• CURLY, JEAN NICOLAS (1774-1827)

curly See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair elaborately dressed; their See also:

• WOMEN

women hold a much lower position than among the Polynesians; their institutions, social, polit' 1 and religious, are simpler, their See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners ruder; they have fe or, no traditions; See also:

• CANNIBALISM

cannibalism, in different degrees, is almost universal; but their See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic skill and See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, as with some of the lower See also:

• AFRICAN

African negroes, are remarkable, and they are amenable to discipline and See also:

• FAIR

fair treatment . Their See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, which exhibit considerable difference among themselves, have features which See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark them off clearly from the Polynesian, notwithstanding certain. fundamental relations with the latter . See R . H . See also:

• CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER (1668-1710)
• CODRINGTON, SIR EDWARD (1770-1851)

Codrington, The Melanesian Languages (See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, 1885) and The Melanesians (Oxford, 1891); the articles See also:

• PAPUANS (Malay pap4wah or puwah-puwah, " frizzled," " woolly-haired," in reference to their characteristic hair-dressing)

PAPUANS and PACIFIC OCEAN; also those on the several island-groups, &c .