The Maori: The Painted Men of Polynesia

[mike2]

I have recently taken up interest in Oceania and the racial types of the region. Of special interest to me is Polynesia. I understand that Polynesians are for the most part a mixed population of Australoid Papuan types and Austronesian Mongoloids. Here are some pictures of Maoris. Would you say these people are more Mongoloid or Australoid?


I think this girl is a pretty good approximation of the Austronesian element of the Maori and Polynesians in general.










I wouldn't be fooled by the mild Caucasian appearance of this guy. Mongoloid-Australoid admixture often produces types that look similar to that of the Caucasian. The Ainu are a good example of that.



















































A diverse lot indeed, but I think the Mongoloid and Australoid elements are equally balanced for the most part. It appears the Mongoloid element predominates more often in women than it does in men. But that's just based on what I've seen. Fascinating people.

[Josh]

I'd say more Mongoloid, since they look very different from Australian Aborigines.

[Crimson Guard]

Its hard to say,I always thouht they where more a race on to themselves sorta like the Amerindian-Asiatic Hawaiian natives .

But with some of those photos its again hard to tell,cause i think some may of had white,asian or even black admixture in them going back to the colonial or even recent times,theirs no way of telling.

Has their been an genetic testing on them?

[Human]

they are remarkably similar to some south native americans.

ive read polynesians most frequent mtdna haplogroup is B, which is also found in south east asian, even china, and in the americas too.

mtdna haplogroup B is as often as 95% amongst polynesians. among guarani amerindians in paraguay the frequency is around 80%.

they are believed to have come to the america continent following the sea coast by coast, or from island to island, supposedly of course. reasonable supposition by the way.

[Faelcind]

I think polynesians favor the mongloid ancestry more there quite intermediate however the interesting thing about them is their exceptional hypertrophy, I wonder what the adaptive significance of it is. I would also love to see how well some of these guys could do as olympic weightlifters.

[MC anunnaki]

They strike me as a very handsome group of people. I like the face paintings, very dramatic and exotic. But what's with the tongues?

[deuceswild]

Faelcind said:

I think polynesians favor the mongloid ancestry more there quite intermediate however the interesting thing about them is their exceptional hypertrophy, I wonder what the adaptive significance of it is. I would also love to see how well some of these guys could do as olympic weightlifters.

You're right....Polynesians can have huge physiques.

[Faelcind]

Very few man can make me feel runtish but when I visited some of the native hawaian towns on maui I felt quite small. They were similar to my height but seemed twice as broad. American samoans actually are signficantly more likely to end up as proffesional football players then black americans on per capita basis.

[Buddyryvall]

www.murderdog.com/archives/dlt/dltinterview.html

They are definatly more Mongoloid than Australoid, they are pretty tall and hairless Ive noticed, most of them dont even have hair on their legs or chests lol ;D, Its funny though, here in Australia all the tongans, samoans and maoris walk around in big groups dressed up like they are all ghetto gangstas, they actually think they are black African American gangstas and they even call each other nigga. LOL.
Didint the Pacific islanders originate from asia thousands of years ago? I could be wrong

[Human]

that robust famous actor The Rock is part black part samoan. some samoans are pretty robust indeed.

[Human]

polynesians, melanesyans, pacific islanders have the highest incidence of mtdna haplogroup B (95%), which is common too among south east asians (especially, where it is thought to have originated), chinese (20%, or 1 out of 5, which in the case of China leave us with a big number), and amerindians (all over america amerindians, especially southwestern northern americans, navajo, some andinian tribes, and guarani tribes from paraguay, where haplogroup B comes to a height of 80%).
so definetely theres a kinship among all these people sure. mongoloids, paleo mongoloids, proto mongoloids, whatever.

according to some modern theories on the spread of haplogroup B it originated in southeast asia then spread to polynesia and along the pacific coast (or even from pacific islands) to the american continent.

theyre strikingly similar to many southern american native tribes!