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Norma facialis. — A low smooth border separated the floor of the nose from the 

 incisive region, the maxillo-nasal spine was moderate. The anterior nares were wide 

 and the nasal length was small, so that the index, 63, was highly platyrhine. The 

 nasio-malar index in the adult was 106, on the line between platy- and mesopic. The 

 maxillo-facial index, 457, was mesoprosopic. The alveolar border of the upper jaw 

 was broken and the index was possibly orthognathous. The upper and outer borders 

 of the orbit were thick; the aperture, 87 '5, was mesoseme. The hard palate was wide 

 and shallow, all the teeth had been lost. The projection of the glabella and supra- 

 orbital ridges, the depressed nasion, the short nose and wide nostrils gave to the face a 

 forbidding aspect. 



The cranial sutures were simple and to a large extent ossified. No Wormian bones 

 were observed, but a large left epipteric was present. The cephalic index, 78*3, was in 

 the higher term of the mesaticephalic group, the height of the cranium was greater than 

 the breadth, the vertical index of the skull, 80, was hypsicephalic. The internal 

 capacity of the cranium was 1435 c.c. 



Skull K. — The youth's skull differed materially from that of the adult. It was. 

 definitely dolichocephalic, with the cephalic index 72*9, and the height was more than 

 the breadth ; the nasio-malar index, 112 "3, was prosopic. Although the dentition was 

 incomplete, the face was actually longer than in the skull of the adult, and the maxillo- 

 facial index, 51 *2, was leptoprosopic ; the orbit was rounded with a megaseme index, 

 100, and the nasal index, 60, as in the adult, was platyrhine. The skull was smoke- 

 stained, and had doubtless been suspended in a house as a war trophy, for the 

 head-hunting tribes do not scruple to make victims of women and children ; possibly 

 the skull was not a Kweejow, but had belonged to a neighbouring dolichocephalic tribe. 

 The cranial capacity was 1330 c.c. 



Dayaks. 



The term Dyak is sometimes incorrectly used by travellers to designate generally 

 the wild people of Borneo. Mr Everitt contends that it should only be applied to the 

 tribes who themselves use it as their distinctive appellation. In this sense it seems to 

 be employed by the resident officials in Sarawak and North Borneo. The late Sir James 

 Brooke used the word as properly applicable to wild people " inhabiting parts of 

 the north-western coasts and the mountains of the interior," and he divided them into 

 two groups, Land Dyaks and Sea Dyaks. At one time the difference between them was 

 regarded as one of circumstance only, and that they were essentially the same people. 

 More recent inquiries have led to the belief that these groups differ from each other in 

 many particulars. 



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