THE ETHNOLOtlY OF TH1' I*DtAX ARCHIPELAGO. 



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were favourable to agricultural developement. Amongst many 

 of these the social polity has strongly democratic clcmenr*. 



The primitive Aryan culture is chiefly to hr nought in S. E. 

 Indonesia mid Polynesia, A large portion of Irulomf Li, nnd in 

 rmrticular Sumatra ami Java, have subsequently received from itie 

 later cuihtre of the Tronmndtan nation*, more especially from the 

 Man and Mnvamf, a much higher state of art,, and a somewhat 

 different •octal find political constitution, than that when the 

 first Tthete-Anarn seltlcra brought" with them. • To this later 

 influence belong loom-weaving, the patterns of cloths, many musical 

 ■Mtl'UUiealB. dramati j nf.ertaiiiinents, wayangs, most of the domesti- 

 cated animals, inch 1 ling ^ven the U<.mw$? eui. To the most recent 

 bttt already almost -i.iic period of the later civilisation of tha 

 Ira wad i, indone*r U rba owe the large jars or vases which have 

 Meited so much curiosity and speculation. 1 hey are not found 

 inJrtva and amongst the D iva of Borneo alone, but uear to have 

 been prized all over the Archipelago, t 



POLYNESIA AND THE MALAY A It C H I F E L AOO. 



Those Tiheto-Indian tribes of the Indian Archipelago which 

 have hepn mo*t secluded from the eoniiinifd influx of Ultraindisn 

 and Indian influence, and in which the African I'lemeuU are 

 ■rronjre*!, hitve the nearest affinity to the Polynesian. From 

 the Pliilipines to the Timorean chain, Polynesian traits are 



* In f hr» later mcvUflcafknw of thn Indonesian political aytrtetw by Mayanmti and 

 Piaiuese Influence, pohth-al offle** hare assumed a g -en'er importance. Hut, u,x»n 

 the whole, the atrial ami jKiliticui hfraa which rea'ty mould tlte Indonesian 



COOi-tiaui' let h tve been I tttlii » decled. The in$ul*r pttt-ntutri h*vr rt.ul ly id ip'ed 

 the Cirrus hnporttd by am y Mlcceviirc rare ol foreign visitors thai baa pred >ml««ted» 

 but tbu ain icot ins Itutiorw mid nflicr* remain under the m.-w names, or, a* axoxtt 

 frtqncntly happen*, with a mixture of hid->ne«ian, Hindu, Moyama, Arjb and 

 ere-i I'ornur'Jcsf »nd Dutch title*. The nine carious displacement and mixture of 



names is pre **nt<id hy many of iii>< insular rtihrmns, the uncie.it g>d* baring 

 juvs«nred a real ideality in numerous, instance*, alter having repeatedly renewed 

 theJ r names. 



t The fact of the Spaniards, on their first sctrling in tln> Phdtpine*, finding that 

 thai Jnpnnese w«re in the haltit of huvng «ich ma remained at high prices trom 

 the Lu/oniani, prove* that were not of oath** Japanese or Chinese manuiactu'es. 

 aa haj often been supposed . The finest were folded external!* and told for Id 000 

 franca, 'flic Hoi-minn ones. which am inferior in sise and want the gilding, sell 

 for 100 to 5,0OJ florins ; the Ceramest far 20 to 100 dollars.— When I bocamn 

 aware of tht Intimate connection that trntst a' o;te trm<- have nLut' d between 

 th«- maritime Mayama tribe* and western Indonesm, the fame which Peuu. 

 and especially Maitabau, ut one time enjoyed lor their bean I fully gUxed and 

 glide J vawi*, soni^iuie* of enormottn site, directed me to this country aa the 

 source of ihe fcrea'. demand for dragon rates which must at one lime have 

 prevailed amongst the liitniu* 01 Java (where 'hey en» freqaentlv aug op) utd 

 o'ber part* of tiie Archipelago. 1 late>y noticed a passage in Sf, Dttl-iurier's 

 trinalarion of Ibn-UstiJouTha* deacriplion of the ArchipeTagii of A=ia ( Journal 

 An-atiqtir & IX p. 230, whlrh curlonalj confirms this opinion. The Arab traveller 

 r*lwte* that the Qaaea of Knylukary preirn el him with tour Martabant, wldch 

 appe tr from the onntaxt to have been a kind of large rases. This was in the 14th 

 century. 



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