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H. J. T. BIJLMER 



the list he gives [pg. 79] we state that arches, occurring only in small quantity in Europeans, 

 occur still less among the two coloured peoples. And so we cannot be surprised that they 

 are absent in my few cases. In DALTON's Europeans the loops prevail in ail the ten fingers, 

 in the Minangkabau-Malay of KLEIWEG DE ZWAAN this is only the case for the middle- and 

 the little fingers of both hands and the forefinger of the left one while in the thumbs and 

 the ringfingers the whirls are in the majority and in the forefingers of the right hand loops 

 and whirls are shovving nearly the same number. My results appear to be quite conform with 

 the latter. The men of Nias are again showing. a majority for the loops in ail fingers, but 

 to a smaller degree than the Europeans. So in the three coloured peoples the number of 



whirls appears to be markedly higher 

 than in the white men. I must repeat 

 however that my few observations are 

 only of little value. 



Finally something about the foot- 

 measurements. Only the length has been 

 measured ; it averaged for the 64 Timo- 

 rini maies 25,11 cm. (rel. footlength 

 16,2) for the 20 women 22,8 cm., for 

 15 Mamberamo-Papuans 26,71 cm. and 

 for the 40 Dyak 24,6 cm. (rel. foot- 

 length 15,8). The Dyak foot appeared 

 to be smaller than that of the Papuans 

 and thus maintained the famé of the 

 brown race. A strongly divergent great 

 toe was only found in a minority of 

 the Timorini. 



The proportions of trunk and 

 limbs are depictured in the accompa- 

 nying canons. Thus reduced in size, the 

 différences are not very marked, but 

 the eye is so sensible to them when 

 observing the living that the différence 

 in stature, fixed in the canon by num- 

 bers, constitutes one of the most striking 

 characteristics of our Dyak opposite 

 to the Papuan race. It is indeed curious to see, how the anthropométrie results corroborate 

 with those I put down in my diary: "The inhabitants of the valley are slender and in gênerai 

 elegantly built people. Their forms are not so rounded as those of the Dyak, the body of 

 whom is of quite another type than that of our newly discovered friends: the Dyak with 

 broad shoulders and short muscular legs, the Timorini slender and délicate. Undoubtedly the 

 latter answer more to the European model in miniature and it is probably in conséquence of 

 this' that the name of pigmies is after ail not so bad. Hands and feet cannot be called 

 small, they are more of the European than of the Malay shape". 



Timorini. Woman, carrying oebi. 



