Papuan.

1601 R. Hakluyt tr. A. Galvano Discov. World 70 The people of Maluco call them Papuas, because they be blacke and friseled in their haire.

1619 W. Phillip tr. W. C. Schouten Relation Wonderfull Voiage 62 Wee thought those people to be Papoos, for all their haire was short, and they eate Betell and Chalke mingled with it.

1684 J. Locke Jrnl. 20 Apr. in K. Dewhurst John Locke (1963) 242 Amongst the draughts he had of severall Esterne people in their natural colours and habits were the Kakerlacks and Papu's.

1770 J. Banks Jrnl. (1962) II. 220 The price of these slaves is from 10 to 20 pound Sterling apeice... African negroes calld here Papua are the cheapest and worst disposd.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 68 The long hair'd Moors..and the mopheaded Papuas.

1813 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Man vi. §6. 307 Most of them resembled the woolly-headed Papuas.

1833 New S. Wales Mag. (Sydney) 181 Our Papuas (the aborigines) generally know nothing but to starve and to die.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 239/1 The Papúas of New Guinea..seem to approach more nearly to the make and strength of the African.

1907 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 227 This Dutch government..would have brought opium to Dutch New Guinea..if luckily the move in that direction, for poisoning the Papuas as a first-fruit of western civilization, had not been checked by public opinion.

1989 Women's Wear Daily (Nexis) 16 June 4 Mercie's latest creations, fabric-covered straw disks inspired by African Zulus and the Papuas of New Guinea, were standouts.