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The nose was especially broad, concave and flattened, the nostrils 

 being visible from above, except in one or two instances in which the 

 tip was depressed and flattened forming a hook. 



The lips were not particularly thick nor were they much 

 everted. Prognathism was only slightly indicated. The cheek 

 bones wei'e only moderately prominent and the contour of the face 

 was shield-shaped ; superciliary and other ridges were not in 

 evidence and the whole cranium appeared like that of the majority 

 of these tribes to be of infantile type. The chin was somewhat 

 pointed and the jaw though small was powerfully formed at the 

 angles, the muscles being well developed. Teeth were white and 

 regular. The ears were small, flat and without lobes. The fore- 

 head was narrow and rounded and the skull ill-filled. 



The general exjDression was not vivacious, appearing to us 

 hardly that of a people dependent on their alertness for the means 

 of subsistence. 



The hands were small, the fingers delicate and tapering, the feet 

 were turned out wlien walking but the great toe was quite in line 

 with the inner side of the foot, being in no way deflected. 



DRESS AISD ADORNMENT. 



The dress of the males was a cotton or bark-cloth T-bandage, 

 the end being brought up beneath a rattan girdle and dependent in 

 front ; that of the women consisted of two skirts, one being composed 

 of one foot lengths of the rhizomorph of a fungus {alcar bahi) knotted 

 by a clove hitch to a double length of cord of doubtful origin forming 

 a. fringe about three feet long which was found round the waist 

 The second skirt was of similar form but of greater depth and less 

 exiguous being made of shredded grass and vegetable fibre, bunched 

 over the hips. Both sexes wore bracelets and necklet of the same 

 aJcar hatu as that composing the women's skirts, plaited rattan 

 bracelets and, for state occasions, ornaments of beads of various 

 colours strung with the teeth of monkeys and worn either 

 as fillets or necklets. The men also were pandan leaf fillets 

 ornamented with scarlet flowers with a long projecting plume at the 

 back of the same material. The ears were not perforated and no 

 ear-rings were seen but the septum of the nose was pierced for the 

 reception of a porcupine quill or other similar ornament. Large 

 bunches of white flowers were worn by the women on one occasion 

 at the back of the head. Ornamented bamboo combs were also in use 

 by the women but were not abundant and were parted with 

 reluctantly. 



WEAPONS. 



We have little to add to Mr. Evans' description of the weapons 

 but it may be mentioned that bamboo spears, with the points hardened 

 by the fire are in use for hunting, while the bow and arrow though 

 not actually used at the present day by the Ijok Seraang are ftot 

 unknown to them. 



