Melanesians's introduction

Melanesians is an ethnic group of Melanesian Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Including Solomon, Vanuatu, New Caledonians, Fijians and melanesians in Papua New Guinea, * * * about 165438+ ten thousand people (1978). Belongs to the Melanesian type of Australian race, with dark skin, curly hair, wide face, wide nose and prominent chin. Multilingual, belonging to Melanesian language family in Austronesian language family. Worship totems and leaders, superstitious witchcraft and divination, full-time wizards and priests. Later some people converted to Christianity.