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XXVIII. — A Contribution to the Craniology of the Natives of Borneo, the Malays, 

 the Natives of Formosa, and the Tibetans. By Principal Sir William 

 Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (With Five Plates.) 



(Read 10th June 1907. Issued separately July 20, 1907.) 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 781 



Borneo 781 



Muruts ... 782 



Dusuns 784 



Dalit 787 



Kweejow 788 



Dayaks 789 



Land Dyaks 790 



Sea Dyaks 791 



Bajaus or Sea Gypsies . . . . . . 793 



Malays 794 



General Observations on Borneo Crania . . . 798 



Botans of Formosa 803 



Indonesians 808 



Tibetans .812 



Sagittal Sections 815 



Explanation of Plates 818 



In three memoirs published from time to time in the Transactions of this Society * 

 I have described the characters of the crania in several Asiatic races, the bulk of which 

 were natives of India, though a few were from countries adjoining Hindostan. In this 

 memoir I intend to continue my inquiries into the cranial characters of Asiatic people, 

 and to give an account of natives of Borneo, the Malays, the natives of Formosa, and 

 the Tibetans. 



BOENEO. 



Through the courtesy of a former pupil, Dr Eobert E. Adamson, I received between 

 the years 1898 and 1901 fifteen skulls of natives of North Borneo. They were 

 carefully labelled by him with the name of the tribe, and in many specimens also 

 with that of the district from which they had been obtained. Ten skulls were 

 discoloured with smoke, and several retained fragments of dried skin attached to the 

 bones. They had been suspended in the houses of the natives by split cane, which 

 in some specimens had been wound around the skull, so as to enclose it in an open 

 cage with a long loop for suspension ; in one skull the loop had been passed through 

 the nose ; in two others through a hole artificially made in the sagittal suture. 

 Obviously these skulls had been trophies collected by the head hunters. In several, 

 a part of the occipital bone bounding the foramen magnum had been removed, so as 

 more readily to extract the brain. 



In the following description the skulls are arranged in groups in accordance with 

 the tribes to which they belonged. 



* Part I., Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of India and the People of Burma, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 

 vol. xxxix., 1899 ; Part II., Aborigines of Chiita Nagpur, the Central Provinces, Orissa, Veddahs, Negritos, 

 Transactions, vol. xl., 1901 ; Part III., Natives of Madras Presidency, Thugs, Veddahs, Tibetans, Seistanis, 

 Transactions, vol. xlv., 1906. 



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