Meanings
plural Arfaks
- Any of various indigenous Papuan peoples living in the rugged Arfak Mountains of West Papua.
The Dorey men, on the other hand, are shore-dwellers, fishers and traders in a small way, and have thus the character of a colony who have migrated from another district. These hillmen or "Arfaks" differed much in physical features. They were generally black, but some were brown like Malays.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 310
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