
50 PEOPLES OF THE PHILIPPINES 
It has been suggested that the Indonesian may be 
nothing but a blend of Negrito and Malayan. The 
shorter stature of the Indonesian and his very broad 
nose might at first seem to support such a view. On 
the other hand, the Indonesian is a distinctly straight- 
haired race, whereas Negrito and negroid blood, wher- 
ever it can possibly be traced, always renders the hair 
at least wavy, if not curly. Furthermore, both the 
Malayan and the Negrito happen to coincide in being 
round-headed, whereas the head form of the Indonesian 
is distinctly longer. It is hardly possible to believe 
that two round-headed races should produce a long- 
headed blend. 
The distinctness of the Malayan and Indonesian 
types may therefore be accepted. The Malayan is 
certainly wholly Mongoloid; in many respects, his 
type stands very close to that which prevails in the more 
civilized portions of Indo-China, as in Siam. The 
oblique Mongoloid eye is sometimes marked in Java, 
and occurs occasionally among the Malayan strata in 
the Philippines. Inasmuch as only some five percent 
of the Christian Filipinos are computed to contain a 
strain of Chinese blood derived from Chinese im- 
migrants, and since in certain districts some approach 
to the slant eye seems to be displayed in a considerably 
larger proportion of the population, it is probable that 
this feature must be recognized as due to a tendency 
of some strength, though by no means a universal one, 
inhering in the Malayan variety. 
The Indonesians are less distinctively Mongoloid. 
The slant eye is at least very rare among them, perhaps 
wholly absent. Their broad noses are also scarcely 
paralleled among other Mongoloids. It has been sug- 
gested that they are Caucasian, or of Caucasian affini- 
ties; but if this is so, the affinity must be very remote. 
