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difference between the Malays and Indonesians in this 

 respect. The Kayan women have relatively a much longer 

 femur than the men. The shorter tibia makes the whole 

 leg of the Bornean peoples shorter than in others — 

 except that the Punans make it up with a longer femur. 

 Women and young people have longer legs than men. 

 The Punans have the fattest calves approximating to 

 the Tenggerese, the other Bornean tribes are more 

 like the Gorontalese. The chest girth of Ulu Ayars 

 and Tenggerese is almost the same, despite the difference 

 in the breadth of the chest, in which the Ulu Ayars 

 resemble the inhabitants of Atchin measured by Lubbers. 

 The proportion of the length of the foot to the stature 

 is 16:100 in Kayans of both sexes, 15.4:100 in Ulu 

 Ayars, and 15.2 in Punans. But the Kayan feet are 

 shorter than those of the Gorontalese, who have the longest 

 feet in the Archipelago. The other Bornean peoples are 

 the same as Indonesians who resemble the Malays in this 

 respect. The pelvic breadth of the Kayan men and women 

 is equal (26 cm.), though men have the wider chest ; the 

 Punan pelvis is narrower than in the other two tribes ; but 

 in all three the pelvis is broader than in the Tenggerese. 



We must now turn to the evidence of the crania, of 

 which only a very brief account need be presented here. 

 Owing to the fact that the people are head-hunters the 

 skulls obtained by a traveller in any house are necessarily 

 those of another community, group, or tribe than that to 

 which the occupants of the house belong. Consequently 

 it is necessary for a traveller to learn from the inhabitants 

 the provenience of each cranium, and every one in the 

 house knows it. It is useless for analytical purposes to 

 deal with skulls of which the tribe is not accurately known ; 

 the information that a skull was obtained in a certain 

 village or on a particular river is, as a rule, of very little 

 value. 



In Table C I give particulars of three head indices 

 of 83 crania, of which the history is known in each case. 

 Fifty-eight of these have been presented by Dr. Hose to 

 the University of Cambridge. I have added to these 

 5 Murut, I Lepu Potong, i Kalabit, i Tring, i Bisaya, 

 and I Orang Bukit, which Dr. Hose presented to the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, London, i Ukit skull in the 

 same museum, 3 Dusun in the British Museum, and 5 Murut, 

 3 Maloh, and 3 Kayan, which I measured in Sarawak. I 



