88 PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



Bhima. Table V. 



Two skulls, Nos. 599, 602, presented to the Indian Museum by Mr W. H. P. 

 Driver, are marked Bhima race. The former is apparently that of a woman, and the 

 latter that of a man who died in Ranchi. I have had a difficulty in determining the 

 tribe, caste, or race known as Bhima. I find, however, that Mr Robertson, in his 

 Report, p. 183, speaks of Bhimas as vagrants who form a small sub-division of the 

 Gonds ; but it is possible that it may be a mis-spelling of Bhaina, a tribe living along 

 the southern border of Chuta Nagpur. 



The general form of the skulls in the norma verticalis was an elongated oval 

 with the sides of the cranium steep, the parietal eminences not very bulging. The 

 sagittal region was not ridged, and the slope downwards to the parietal eminences was 

 not very steep. The slope from the obelion to the occipital point was gradual ; the 

 occipital squama moderately projected. In both, the length-breadth index was doli- 

 chocephalic ; in the male the parietal longitudinal arc exceeded the frontal ; in the 

 female they were equal. In each skull the basi-bregmatic diameter was greater than 

 the parieto-squamous, and the vertical index was higher than the cephalic. The fore- 

 head did not much recede, and the glabella and supra-orbital ridges showed no special 

 projection. The nasal bones had not much prominence, and the bridge was concave in 

 the vertical direction ; the nasal spine of the superior maxillse was relatively small. In 

 the male the anterior nares were narrow, and the index was leptorhine ; in the woman 

 it was mesorhine. In the man the upper jaw was orthognathous, in the woman 

 mesognathous. In the man the orbital index was mesoseme, in the woman megaseme. 

 In both the palato-maxillary index was mesuranic. The cubic capacity was micro- 

 cephalic, 1270 and 1170 c.c. respectively. 



Koydwar. Table V. 



The Indian Museum contains the skull, No. 284, of a man named Nagooloo, 50 

 years old, from Bijji, Bastar State, Central Provinces. He is said to have been of short 

 stature ; skin black ; hair black and soft ; eyes dirty brown ; a moustache ; food rice, 

 flesh, fish, vegetables. He is stated in the list sent to me to be of the Koydwar race. 

 It is possible that this term may be a mis-spelling for Kotwari, a term applied to the 

 caste which performs the service of village watchman. 



The skull was elongated and ovoid in the norma verticalis ; the sides were 

 moderately steep, the sagittal region was not ridged, the parietal eminences were much 

 in advance of the occipital point, and the occipital squama was rounded and prominent. 

 The length-breadth index was 71*3, and the skull was dolichocephalic. The frontal 

 longitudinal arc was the longest. The basi-bregmatic height was a little below the 

 greatest breadth, and the vertical index, 69 "6, was tapeinocephalic. The anterior nares 

 were wide, and the nasal index, 56*3, was distinctly platyrhine. The upper jaw was 



