CRANIOLOGY OF PEOPLE OF INDIA. 723 



pointed to a comparatively feeble mandible, though two specimens approached the 

 leptoprosopic group. 



In their characters the two Chinbok skulls now described corresponded generally 

 with those from the Chin Hills previously recorded. The mean cephalic index, 74*2, 

 was dolichocephalic ; the height in each skull was greater than the breadth, they were 

 hypsicephalic, and the mean vertical index was 76 "9. The gnathic index, 98 '9, could 

 be computed in only one skull, a shade above the conventional limit of ortho- 

 gnathism. The mean nasal index was 50*95, mesorhine. The orbit in one was high and 

 the index was megaseme, in the other it was moderate or mesoseme. The lower jaw was 

 present in only one skull, the complete facial index of which, 91*5, was leptoprosopic, 

 narrow and high-faced, which was also the proportion of the upper or maxillo-facial 

 index, 51 '5. The mean cubic capacity of the two male Chinbok crania was 1315 c.c, 

 which corresponded exactly with the mean capacity of the five male skulls from the 

 Chin Hills described in Part I. 



There can, I consider, be no doubt that the Chinbok skulls were those of men of 

 the same race as the inhabitants of the Chin Hills, who had probably left their native 

 mountains for the lower grounds in the Pakokku district. I had also in Part I. described 

 five skulls of the people who occupy the Lushai Hills, which extend westwards from 

 the Chin Mountains. Two of them were brachy cephalic, but the others had a mean 

 cephalic index, 74*6. Of these dolichocephalic specimens it may be said that they were 

 probably the same race as the Chins, or at least that they had close affinities with them. 



Taungtha. Table VI. (Plate XIII.) 



The Taungtha or Taungthu skulls were received from Tilin, a township in Pakokku, 

 which is situated east of the Chin Hills and has the Yaw township to the south and 

 Gangaw to the north. It is stated in the Gazetteer that they form nearly half the 

 population of the Myelat,^ and the state of Thaton (Hsa-htung) is so completely 

 Taungtha that the Myoza is of that race ; they are said to extend also into the western 

 part of the Southern Shan States. They live in villages by themselves, and are 

 nominally Buddhists but practically spirit- worshippers. Their language is distinct from 

 Burmese and is like the Chinbok. Colonel Lewin, for many years Deputy Commissioner 

 in the Chittagong district, regards the term Taungtha as signifying "children of the 

 hills," t and under this name he includes the Tipperah tribes and the Lushais or 

 Kookies with their offshoots. 



Two skulls were labelled Taungtha, an adult male and a child in the first dentition. 



Norma verticalis. — The adult cranium No. 22 was elongated and ovoid in its outline, 

 and the cephalic index was 73-8, dolichocephalic. It was not keeled, the slope outwards 



* The term Myelat, i.e. Middle Country, is applied to Pakokku and neighbouring districts, which form the middle 

 part of Burma, at the limits of Upper and Lower Burma. The population of Pakokku is stated (Gazetteer, vol. B) 

 as about 360,000 in 1901, of which the Burmese numbered 341,360, the Chins 6535, the Taungthas 5701. 



+ Hill Tribes of Chittagong, 1869. 



