THE V ED DAS OF CEYLON, 



AND 



THEIR RELATION TO THE NEIGHBOURING TRIBES. 



Translated from the German Monograph of Professor R. Vlrch ow. 



CONTENTS. 



The Yedda Land — Number of the Yeddas, Wild and Tame—Demon 

 "Worship ; Worship of Ancestors — Original Population of Ceylon 

 (Yakkus) — Ethnological Description of the Yeddas — Psychological 

 Characteristics of the Yeddas — System of Casfce in Ceylon : Dodda 

 Yeddas, Rodiyas — Tamil Immigration (Malabars) ; Arabs (Moors, 

 Moormen) — Malays and more recent Immigrants ; Sinhalese ; Linguis- 

 tic — Derivation of the Yeddas — Physical Anthropology of the Yeddas : 

 Size of the Body ; Complexion and' Hair ; Eyes, Nose, and Face ; 

 Skull — Physical Anthropology of the Sinhalese : Skull — Physical 

 Anthropology of the Tamils: Skull — Physical Anthropology of the Moor- 

 men — Physical A nthropology of the Malays — Relations of the Races to 

 one another — The Question of a Chinese Descent— Yeddas and Sinhalese 

 — Yeddas and Tamils — Dravidas from Tan j ore (Chola) — Kurumbas — 

 Yedars, Asurs — Dasyu, Proto-Dravidian, and Pre-Dravidian — Yedda* 

 and Negritos — Andamanese — Yeddas and Australians — Yeddas and 

 Malays — Microcephaly and Nannocephaly — Variability of Race 

 Character — The Yedda as a member of the " Black-skins " of India 

 — Tables of Measures— Explanation of the Tables. 



Explanation of the Tables.* 



Table I. — Skull of a Yedda Woman from the Museum at Colombo, 

 Ceylon. 



Table II. — Skull of a Sinhalese. 



Table III.— Skull of a Tamil from Ceylon. 



All the views are by Mr. JEJ. JEyrich, taken according to the 

 geometrical method, and reduced to one-third the natural size. 



* Not reproduced. — Hon. See. 



