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other man it was more roof-shaped, and the antero-posterior curve was higher at the 

 vertex. The backward slope to the occipital point was more prolonged in the other 

 crania. In the men the basi-bregmatic height exceeded the greatest breadth. In the 

 woman it was somewhat less, and the greater parietal projection gave a pentagonal 

 outline to the cranium, in which the frontal longitudinal arc was the longest. In the 

 two men the large Wormian bones in the lambdoidal suture interfered with the measure- 

 ments of the parietal and occipital longitudinal arcs. In two skulls a faint transverse 

 depression behind the coronal suture indicated that a band had been worn during 

 infancy. The forehead in the woman and in one man was almost vertical, but receded 

 somewhat in the other male. The skulls were cryptozygous or nearly so, and rested 

 behind on the occiput. The glabella and supra-orbital ridges only slightly projected. 

 The nasion was not much depressed ; the nose had a definite bridge, concave for- 

 wards ; the nasal spine of the superior maxillae was moderate. The nasal index in the 

 two men was mesorhine, 52 and 50 respectively ; in the woman's skull the face was 

 broken. In the men the orbital index was microseme, in the woman megaseme ; the 

 palato-maxillary index was brachyuranic ; the gnathic index in one male was ortho- 

 gnathous, in the other mesognathous. The teeth were erupted, though in one male the 

 wisdoms were not fully in place. The cranial sutures were unossified ; epipteric bones 

 were seen in two crania. In one male, stunted paramastoid processes were present. In 

 the female skull each occipital condyle was almost equally divided by a constriction 

 into an anterior and a posterior area. The cubic capacity of the female skull was 

 1255 c.c, and the mean of the two males was 1384 c.c. 



Korwd. Table II. 



The Korwas are a Dravidian tribe living in Chuta Nagpur, in the districts of 

 Sarguja, Jashpur, and Palamau, and claiming to be the aboriginal inhabitants. By 

 some linguists the word Korwa is regarded as another form of Kol. They lead a 

 nomadic life in the highlands, and armed with bows and arrows, are hunters and flesh 

 eaters rather than agriculturists ; though to some extent they are cultivators, and clear 

 the ground by burning the jungle. Dalton states that they are the most savage 

 looking of the Kolarian group of tribes. They are strongly built and active ; the skin 

 is dark brown, the face is broad, the forehead narrow, the hair is long and tangled, 

 though in a figure of a man reproduced by Mr Crooke, the head is shaven ; they 

 grow a beard and moustache. The more savage of the Korwas have black skins, 

 flab faces, projecting chins, and tawny hair. In stature, the men of the Sarguja Korw&s 

 averaged 5 feet 3 inches, the women 4 feet 9 inches ; but the men living on the Khiiria 

 plateau were somewhat taller ; one measured 5 feet 8 inches. Both sexes are scantily 

 clothed. They worship the tribal god Raja Chandol, and offer sacrifices to it, but the 

 Sarguja tribe sacrifice to the spirits of their ancestors. They are totemistic, and 

 apparently marriage is prohibited within the sept using the same totem. Mr Crooke 



