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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSICAL ANTHRO¬ 
POLOGY OF THE MALAY PENINSULA 
Section II.—Observations on the Skeleton 
Part III. Malavo-Siamese 
By NELSON ANNANDALE, B.A. 
T HE specimens described under this heading were obtained by Mr. 
Robinson and myself in the states of Jhering, Patani and Nawngchik. 
They comprise two Malay skulls (one of which is accompanied by an 
imperfect skeleton) and a jaw bone of the same race ; five adult Siamese skulls, 
with long bones and pelves, a Siamese lower jaw and imperfect skeleton, and 
two immature skulls, one of them that of an infant and the other that of a 
youth, the former being in a fragmentary condition but having a few of the 
limb bones associated with it. There is also the skull of a Siamese child about 
eleven years old, which was obtained by myself in the state of Patalung : 
it has with it an incomplete set of limb bones. 
(^) Malay Skulls 
Of the two complete Malay skulls in our collection one, which is 
accompanied by an incomplete skeleton, was obtained at Jambu, Jhering, in 
the waste ground where the bodies of persons who have died a violent death 
are hastily interred. The lower jaw, representing a second skull, is from 
the same locality. Both the individuals represented were said to have been 
natives of Jhering, the skeleton being that of a man who had recently been 
murdered by his wife's lover, while the lower jaw was all that remained of the 
body of a second murdered Malay, which had been washed out of the sand 
and carried away in a flood ; a friend had rescued this one bone and had hung 
it up upon the branch of a small tree, where we found it. The other Malay 
skull was obtained on the outskirts of the town of Patani, and was reported 
to be that of a Kelantan Malay whom the ex-raja of Patani had murdered 1 
some years previously. 
i. It i* very much easier to obtain the remains of those who *have died of being killed " in the Patani States 
than of those who have died naturally. 
