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P. W. SehmidtOl) compares the Indian, southeastern Asiatic (Men Khmer 

 Vtilker) and the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula in physical characters and 

 language, and concludes that the "Mon Khmer Volker" are intermediate between 

 the others not only geographically but physically and philologically. The Indians 

 are uniformly dolichocephalic, the Mon Khmer are dolichocephalic, nresocephalio 

 and brachycephalic, and the Senoi are mesocephalic. The nasal index of the 

 Indian is mesorhine and platyzhine, the Mon Khmer are leptorhine, the Senoi 

 are mesorhine. Tlie Indians are tall, the Senoi are small. The language, however, 

 is the basis of Sclmiidt's argmnent that the "Mon-Khmer Volker" represent a 

 link between the people of India and Oceania, or as he expresses it : '"ein Bindeglied 

 zwischen Volkein Zentralasiens und Austronesiens." The works of Keane(2l), of 

 Risley, of Lapicque(23) and others support this view. 



One may go even farther than this, and select Eurojiean types that 

 are represented throughout the East among the aborigines. Three or 

 more primitive European types may be segregated among tlie Filipinos 

 of almost any part of the Islands by careful selection, and at least two 

 of these are represented among the Igorots, one in type M and the other 

 in type A. In each type the European has crossed with the Fegrito, 

 and the result is two entirely different types. 



The European represented by M was a medium sized, stockily built 

 individual, with straight, heavy nose, long, square head, straight, black 

 hair, and oblong ears. - These traits have persisted with the alteration 

 of skin-color, face and nose width, and stature due to the Negrito. The 

 nearest living related type to this primitive European is the "big cere- 

 bellumed, box-headed Bavarian of Eanke"(6). This type is present 

 largely in the Spanish population of the Philippines, the data on which 

 I base this statement being reserved for future publication. Type M, 

 or near relatives of it, may be found wherever the so-called Malay has 

 settled and represents a distinctive Malayan type. 



' The European represented by A was a small individual with long low 

 head; black, straight hair, and round, flaring ears. The present Euro- 

 pean prototype is the Iberian, oi- Mediterranean race of Sergi. The 

 union of these traits with the Negrito resulted in a small, dolichoce- 

 plialic, broad-nosed type. The mingling of types M and A with the 

 Negrito and tlieir recent contact with the Negritos of the Philippines 

 produced the Igorot (M, A, N). The process of amalgamation has 

 been a long one, and it is not yet complete. The P]uropean migration 

 eastward was in early prehistoric times, probably Paleolithic, when the 

 types of white men were more distinct than at present, yet fewer in 

 number and not so differentiated. Any hypothesis to explain the 

 amalgamation of tliree different types, and the production of the Igorot 

 by this amalgamation, presupposes at least three things : The segregation 

 of unit characters in allelomorijhie jjairs, the dominance of one unit 

 character in each pair, and the apparent disappearance of the other unit 

 character. For instance the head of the Iberian is dolichocephalic, that 

 of the Negrito is brachycephalic. The head of type A is dolichocephalic, 



