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of being rather cumbersome, and in the case of the 

 Sea-Dayaks very inappropriate. Explorations in Sarawak, 

 British North Borneo, and Dutch Borneo have revealed 

 the presence of a whole host of tribes, each with a 

 distinctive name and a well-defined area of distribution, 

 but it is only within recent years that it has become 

 possible to sort these tribes out into a few main cate- 

 gories. I will not try to give a complete list of all the 

 tribes of Borneo, but will try rather to sketch the bare 

 outlines of a scheme of classification which has been 

 compiled from the writings of the leading authorities on 

 the subject. Most ethnologists now agree that in the 

 islands of the Malay Archipelago there exists, in addition 

 to the coastal, round-headed Malayan stock, an older, 

 narrow-headed race to which the term Indonesian has 

 been applied ; such, to take a few examples, are the 

 Tenggerese of Java, the Battaks of Sumatra, the Muruts 

 and Land-Dayaks of Borneo. The main feature of the 

 ethnography of the Malay Archipelago then is, that 

 the centres of the islands are occupied by a narrow- 

 headed, or at any rate only moderately broad-headed, 

 race, while the coasts are inhabited by a broad-headed 

 people. Any further subdivision in the present state 

 of our knowledge can only be tentative. Concerning 

 Borneo the most recently published views are those of 

 Dr. Charles Hose 1 and myself. We distinguish a typical 

 Indonesian stock that we regard as the oldest stock 

 extant in the island, and we suppose that it slowly filtered 

 into Borneo in far distant times from various sources, 

 but mainly from Further India. To these Indonesians, 



' Hose and Shelford, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., XXXVI. (N. Ser.), IX. 

 (1906), pp. 60-3. See also the fuller statement in Pagan Tribes of 

 Borneo, Hose and McDougall. 



