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ETHNOLOOY OP THE INBO-PACIFIC iSLAlflm. 



HEAD, HA IB. 



The terms fop head ami hair being much interchanged in general 

 glossology I phice them together. 



Eleren vocahles are found in the Bmvirian languagea, — &enni, 

 tali, raudi, mir or mayir, Ijiizh or kud, orama, chuii, ventruks, 

 kn, buho and nb. 



Of thcBt', two are of Tibcto-UItrsindian origin. They are con- 

 fined to the langiiuges bordering on the Ganges. All the others 

 are archaic, and all have Scythic, chiefly Ugrian, affinities. The 

 chain of affinity is varions,— Ugrian, Iranian, North Indian, Aus- 

 tralian and Asonesian ; Ugiian, Caucasian ; Yenieelan ; Ugrtan ; 

 Ugrian, Sindhi, Tatar, (Malagasy, Asonesian) ; Caucasian (Ko- 

 rink, Sanskrit) Sec. 



Ku, "hcad'% is found only in Ui-aonand Male, where it apfjcarg 

 to be of comparatively modern Ultraindian derivation, (Naga). 

 The root ia Tibetan, Ugrian, &c. The Asonesian varieties, like the 

 N. Dravirian, are Tibetan through Ultraindian. 



The Kol terra buho, bu, "head may also beof Tibeto-TJItraindian 

 derivation, but aa another variety of the root, used for ** Jiair", is 

 archaic and as the aspirate of buho appears to have .been transmitted 

 as a guttural to As ones ia, where the lerm is very common, tUere is 

 some doubt as to this. Probably the form buko or buho was an 

 early Draviro-Q-angetic variety of the Tibeto-UItraindian pu, 

 which was carried to the islands by the Gangetico-Polyncsiaa 

 current. 



All the other terms are archaic. Mudi " head " is Hindi and 

 Austrabun on the one sidn, and Scjthic on the other. The full 

 ft>rm, slightly modihud, rcinains in the nasaliaed Gangetic pur- 

 ing (Dhimal). Other varieties ate common to Australian, Papua- 

 nesiun and Malayu-Polynesian languages with Irano-lndian and 

 Ugrian. The root must have prevailtfd in all these forms in the 

 Iranian province, not only in its Sanski-itic but in the older Draviro- 

 Australian and still older proto-Scythic or proto-Di-avirian eras. Tho 

 various Asonesian terms show that the root was the most Gomraon 

 iu the North Dravirian or Gangetic province. In iho south similar 

 forms arc only found in Toda and Kurgi, and in Mulayalani, tho 

 last using thk vocable for " hair." The Toda uud Kurgi forms ap- 

 pear to be Cfjuatly archaic with the Australian, which exhibit a li- 



