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HEAD MEASUREMENTS. 

 These were all taken from Adult Males. 



The average cephalic index of the seven individuals measured is 

 therefore 77.2, ranging fx'om 82-74. 



It is scarcely fair to base any conclusions on so small a series of 

 measurements, but, in so far as they go, they show considerable 

 variety, two of the Kuala Cheka men being dolichocephals (cephalic 

 indices below 75), one of the Kuala Cheka men and one from the 

 Ulu Cheka, just within the sub-dolichocephalic division (cephalic 

 indices 77.77 to 75), two Ulu Cheka men mesaticephals (cephalic 

 indices 77.78 to 80), and one Ulu Cheka man a sub-brachycephal 

 (cephalic indices 80.01 to 83.33). Typically the Pangan sliould be 

 mesaticephals or sub-brachycephals, and even on the showing of 

 this table the Cheka people are not far below the mesaticephalic 

 line. Probably there is a slight admixture of other blood (Sakai, 

 Malay or Jakun) in the tribe, but this only crops up here and there 

 among them, showing itself in a few indis^iduals in the straight or 

 wavy character of the hair or, if Sakai blood be present, in a 

 tendency to dolichocephaly. 



FACE PAINTING AND TATTOOING:* 

 Tattooing was common among both sections of the Pangans and 

 was found on the faces of both males and females. Face painting, 

 which Avas done with a black pigment made from " gettah prah," f 

 the sap of a tree, was only noticed on the faces of the Kuala Cheka 

 women, but is no doubt also practised by the Ulu Cheka people. 

 The face paint designs as shown in plate xxxviii, figure 1, ai-e not ver}^ 

 clear in the photogTaph, (plate xxix, upper figure). The tattooing 

 consisted as a rule of large blue-black dots or round marks as large 

 as the tips of the fingers, the most common form of ornamentation, 

 both in men and women, being a line of them running round the 

 face, taking in the chin, the sides of the face in front of the ears, the 



* Tattoo marks do not show in any of the photographs. 



t The prah tree is said by Wilkinson to be either Mezzetia leptopoda or 

 Elataerio^permmn tapos. 



March, 1915. 



