28 Dr Duckworth, On the Anthropometric data collected 
Per contra, I may be allowed to make one comment in passing. 
The “ Mongoloid” appearance of one of the Maldive men of pygmy 
stature should be recalled here in view of the fact that the 
aboriginal Kurumba of the Nilgiris is alleged by some to be of 
Mongolian aspect. The threads of evidence are, however, so frail 
that I do not venture to insist on the comparison. 
Of the great host of types which still remains for discussion, I 
must be content to select three only for consideration. For the 
comparative data I am indebted to the admirable paper by the 
late Professor E. Schmidt*, and even more to the invaluable work 
by Mr Thurston (entitled Castes and Tribes of Southern India). 
Of the three groups mentioned above, I have selected one, the 
Linga Banajiga, on account of the similarity in head-form and pro- 
portions which obtains between them and the Minikoi men. 
The Mukkavan, another tribe of Southern India, must certainly 
be considered, for they are the fisher-folk of the Malabar coast, 
and they are also distinguished by their tendency to adopt the 
Moslem religion. 
The Billava are not a littoral people, so far as I can learn, but 
they shew in their head-form so marked a tendency to brachy- 
cephaly and thus so strong a contrast with most of their neighbours 
that it seems well to include them in this comparison. The avail- 
able data will be found arranged in Table IX. 
TABLE IX. 
Maldives Linga 
Group Minikoi| with Addu | Banajiga*,) Mukkavan* | Billava* 
Minikoi Sandur 
No. of subjects 20 69 24 25 40 50 
SHEN AWURS) ocoosocode 1577 1588 1604 1656 1631 1632 
Head-length...... 182 190 196 182 190 182 
Head-breadth ...| 1438 146 148 142 142 146 
Cephalic index... 78°5 76°8 75°5 78:3 751 80-1 
Nasal index ...... 175 77:0 755 74°6 81-0 726 
* Thurston, op. ctt. 
The result of the comparison is curiously perplexing, but the 
one outstanding feature is the inferior stature of the islanders. 
Apart from this the general conclusion to be drawn is that the 
mainland tribes may be considered as grouped around the men of 
the islands, and indeed a further draft on Mr Thurston’s data 
might be made easily to confirm this view. On the whole, too, 
this comparison is more apt than that already instituted (cf. 
Table VIII) with the Moormen. 
* Schmidt, Archiv fiir Anthropologie, 1911. 
