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Arfak
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Any of various indigenous Papuan peoples living in the rugged Arfak Mountains of West Papua.
en 1869 Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago Macmillan and Co. II London 310 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.