788 SIR WILLIAM TURNER, THE CRANIOLOGY OF THE NATIVES OF BORNEO, 



mesoseme, index 85 ; the interorbital breadth was 23 mm. The hard palate was wide 

 and shallow, and the palatomaxillary index was hyperbrachyuranic ; none of the alveoli 

 contained teeth. 



The cranial sutures were mostly simple, and those of the vault were undergoing 

 ossification ; they had no Wormian bones, and the pterion was normal. The vertical 

 index, 78, was more than the cephalic, and in the height being greater than the breadth 

 the cranium was associated with a character customary in dolichocephalic skulls, and the 

 skull in its breadth-height index, 10 1*4, was hypsistenocephalic. The internal capacity 

 of the cranium was 1360 c.c. 



Kweejow. Table I. Plate III. 



Dr Adamson informed me that the tribe which he calls Kweejow or Kijow is found 

 in the interior of North Borneo. He stated that they live on the hills, and that their 

 language differs from that of the other tribes in proximity to them. Obviously little is 

 known of these people, as the name does not occur in Mr Ling Roth's admirable com- 

 pendium of information on the natives of Sarawak and North Borneo, in Mr C. Hose's 

 memoirs, or in Mr Haddon's work on Head Hunters. In Lieutenant De Crespigny's 

 memoir already quoted is a passage which without doubt refers to this tribe. He says, 

 p. 176, on the Kalias river, near Padas, # live a tribe of people called Koijoes. They 

 differ much in their habits from the neighbouring tribes, and more especially in their 

 food, for where, as among the Muruts and Dusuns, a certain discrimination is exercised 

 in the choice of food, nothing comes amiss to the Koijoes — snakes, worms, and beetles are 

 eaten by them as a matter of course. I received two skulls marked Kweejow ; one an 

 adult male without the lower jaw, which weighed 1 lb. 12 ozs. avoir. It was stained 

 deep brown from adherent soot. The other, smoke-stained and without the lower jaw, 

 was that of a youth with the dentition incomplete and the basi-cranial synchondrosis 

 unossified. 



Skull L. Norma verticalis. — The adult male cranium was broadly ovoid in outline, 

 with a cephalic index 78 "3. The vault was not ridged in the sagittal line, and curved 

 at first gently, then more steeply outwards to feeble parietal eminences, below which 

 the side walls were a little convex. The parieto-occipital slope was not steep, and the 

 occipital squama projected much beyond a feeble inion. The skull was phsenozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The forehead was receding ; the glabella and supraorbital ridges 

 were well-marked and blended with the thickened superior border of the orbit The 

 nasion was depressed, the nasal bones were short, only 18 mm. long in the mid-line, 

 and did not form a keel, so that the root of the nose was flattened from side to side and 

 the profile outline was concave from above downwards. The frontal arc was 7 mm. 

 longer than the parietal. The skull rested behind on the cerebellar part of the occipital 

 bone, which was broken at the foramen magnum. 



* The Kalias and Padas rivers are in the western part of North Borneo. 



