THE PEOPLING OF THE PHILIPPINES. 5l7 



thickness of the bone is to bo noted, especiiilly of the vertex. The 

 upper jaw is slightly proo-nathous and the roof of tho month uiuisuallv 

 arched. (PI. I.) 



For the purpose of the present study, it is unnecessary to go further 

 into particulars. It might be mentioned that all Lanang skulls are 

 characterized by their size and the firmness of bone, so that they depart 

 widely from the characteristics of the other Philippine examples 

 known to me. Similar skulls have been received only from ca^-es, 

 which exist in one of the little rocky islands east from Luzon. They 

 suggest most Kanaka crania from Hawaii, and Moriori crania from 

 Chatham islands, and they raise the question whether they do not 

 belong to a migration period long before the time of the Malays. 1 

 have, on various occasions, mentioned this probable pre-Malayan, or 

 at least pro to-Malay an, population which stands in nearest relation to 

 the settling of Polynesia. Here I will merely mention that the Poly- 

 nesian sagas bring the progenitor from the west, and that the passage 

 between Halmahera (Gilolo) and the Philippines is pointed out as the 

 course of invasion. 



At any rate, it is quite probable that the skulls from Lanang, Cra- 

 garay, and other Philippine islands are the remains of a verj' old, if 

 not autochthonous, prehistoric layer of population. The present 

 mountain tribes have furnished no close analogies. As to the Igor- 

 rotes, which Blumentritt attributes to the first invasion, I refer to m^- 

 description ^ given on the ground of chronological investigations; 

 according to the account given by Hans Meyer ^ the disposal of the 

 dead in log coffins and in caves still goes on. Of the skulls themselves, 

 none were brachycephalous; on the contrary, they exhibit platyr- 

 rhine and in part decidedly pithecoid noses. On the whole. I came to 

 the conclusion, as did earlier Quatrefages and Hamy, that "they stand 

 next in comparison with the Dayaks of Borneo," but I hold yet the 

 impression that they belong to a very old, probably pre-Malay. innni- 

 gration.^ 



iSchiidel der Igorroten. Verhl. der Berliner Anthrop. Gesellsch., 1883, pp. 390, 

 399. [On the Igorrotes see A. B. Meyer, Negritos, 1899, p. 12, note 2. Tkax.slat<.k.] 



'^ Die Igorroten von Luzon, p. 386. 



* With this study of crania should be read Dr. A. B. Meyer, on craniological data 

 and their value, in The Distribution of the Negritos, Dresden, 1899, in whii-li he 

 says: "The form of the skull in general is variable and i-an not be regarded as a i)er- 

 manent character in the development of the races." The reader nuist not neglect 

 Dr. ]Me.yer's publications, since in them he has the results of careful studies on tlie 

 spot: Volume Vni, of the folio publications of the Dresden Royal Ethnographic 

 Museum, 1890, on the tribes of Northern Luzon; Volume IX, of tlie same, on the 

 Negritos, 1893; Album of Philippine Types, 1885, 32 plates, 4°; ditto, 1891, 50 plate-s 

 and The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere,. 

 Dresden. The last three are published by Stengel & Co., Dresden. The little book 

 on distribution is in English, and contains, in addition to most useful information, a 

 list of Blumentritt' s publications.— Traxslatok. 



