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says the marriage age for boys is twelve and ten for girls ; widows may remarry. 

 Some families cremate, others bury the dead. Mr O'Donnell, in his Eeport on the 

 Census of the Lower Provinces of Bengal, gives 79,954 persons as speaking the Korwa 

 dialect of the Kolarian group of languages. 



The Indian Museum contains a skull (No. 404) of a man of the Korwa tribe, 

 28 years old, named Fukeera, from Sargiija, Chiita Nagpiir. He died in prison, and 

 the skull was presented by Lieut. -Colonel Dalton. 



The cranium in the norma verticalis was an elongated ovoid, very narrow, some- 

 what roof-like in the sagittal region, and with the sides of the skull almost vertical. 

 The length-breadth index was only 68 "8, and the skull was hyper-dolichocephalic. The 

 parietal longitudinal arc was more than the frontal and much longer than the occipital. 

 The basi-bregmatic height materially exceeded the greatest breadth, and the vertical 

 index was 73*7. The parieto-occipital region sloped gently downwards, and the occipital 

 squama was rounded and projected behind the inion. The glabella was moderate and 

 the forehead was somewhat retreating. The nasion was shallow ; the bridge of the 

 nose was slightly projecting and vertically concave. The nasal spine of the superior 

 maxillae was distinct, and a sharp border separated the floor of the nose from the 

 incisive region of the upper jaw. The nasal index was 5 8 '7, distinctly platyrhine ; the 

 gnathic index, 94*3, was that of an orthognathous jaw. The orbital index, 71'8, was 

 mesoseme, and the palato-maxillary index, 120, was brachyuranic. The complete 

 facial index, 84, placed it in the low-faced group, chamseprosopic. The teeth were 

 fully erupted, but not much worn ; the canine fossae were depressed. Small Wormian 

 bones were in the lambdoidal suture. The skull was phsenozygous, and rested behind 

 on the occipital bone. 



Munda, Ho, or Larkha Kol. Table III. 



The Miindas are a large non- Aryan tribe, occupying the plateau in Chuta Nagpiir 

 which attains an elevation of 3000 feet. On linguistic grounds they are classed as 

 Kolarian. Mr Bisley states that the name Miinda is of Sanskrit origin, and is applied 

 to the headman of the tribe or village ; it is also used generally as a tribal name. As 

 regards their language, physical characteristics, and customs, the Mundas, Hos, Bhiimij , 

 Korwa, Kharrias and Santals are closely allied, and from speaking the languages of 

 the Kolarian group, they are frequently classed together as Kols or Coles. There is a 

 difference of opinion as to the derivation and meaning of the term Kol. It has been 

 regarded as signifying pig, and used by the Indo-Aryans as a term of contempt applied 

 to the aborigines ; but it is now, on the authority of Dalton, considered to be derived 

 from the Mundari word Ho, or Horo, which means a man. According to tradition, the 

 Kols were the earliest settlers in the valley of the Ganges. 



Dalton iu his account of the Mundas regards the Hos or Larkha (fighting) Kols as 

 so closely allied to them, that they are often included together in the same descriptive 

 sentence. He states that the Mundas are located in Singbhiim, Chuta Nagpiir, and in the 



