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Malays. They are rather taller than the Malays, but not so well 

 built. They have high cheek bones and protruding jaws with fairly 

 well-cut features. 



The men, for the most part, wear their hair in a longish, curled, 

 tangled mass. Some of them shave their heads more or less com- 

 pletely. Some of the women, especially those who have come much 

 in contact with the Malays, wear their hair neatly combed back and 

 tied in a knot. Others appear to have pulled their hair back, but 

 without combing, and tied it in a similar knot, while others, again, wear 

 their hair in what can be described only as a mop. This is the usual 

 way of wearing the hair among the women met far away among the hills. 



The men's clothing consists of a sheet of bark cloth, twisted round 

 the waist, and then pulled through between the legs. They do not as 

 a rule wear ornaments, unless a few poisoned darts carried on the 

 ears, or in the hair, can be called ornaments. Although the men as a 

 rule wear this piece of bark cloth, they are occasionally met with 

 wearing no clothing whatever. The women wear the same bark cloth 

 twisted round their waists, and often a quantity of roots, grasses, 

 leaves, etc., are inserted at the top of the cloth. They are very fond 

 of ornaments, as strings of beads and bracelets. Anything that can 

 be strung together, as bones, teeth, seeds, glass beads, coins, etc., are 

 used as necklaces. Sometimes a dozen such necklaces will be worn, 

 either as ordinary necklaces or, as is very frequently the case with the 

 older women, over one shoulder and under the breast of the opposite 

 side. They wear either a piece of bamboo or a bone, or a porcupine's 

 quill through the septa of their noses ; when they go to a wedding, 

 a feather has to be inserted. 



They wear the same kind of ornaments in their ears, the holes in 

 the lobes of which are sometimes very large. The women also are 

 very fond of wearing armlets, made of brass or iron rings and of 

 ornamenting their hair with bits of bark cloth, flowers or roots. 

 They also frequently paint their faces with a red dye ; a common way 

 is to have two red dabs on the forehead, one on each cheek and one 

 on the chin. 



