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nose divided from the palate by a definite ridge ; while No. 22 presents the 
opposite conditions, exhibits a very much slighter degree of prognathism and 
a different condition of the teeth. 
( B ) Siamese Skulls 
The Siamese skulls in the collection were procured, with the exception 
of one specimen (which will be dealt with separately), from the state of 
Nawngchik, two of them having been obtained at the village of Ban Sai 
Kau and the remainder in the environs of the town of Nawngchik or Tojan. 
The Sai Kau specimens are male and female, the former being the skull of a 
man who had been murdered by a jealous husband, while the woman had died 
of * fever ’ believed to be of artificial origin. 
The Nawngchik specimens were obtained from the branches of trees in 
which they had been suspended ; we are not acquainted with their individual 
histories, but it is probable that they represent the victims of an epidemic 
of smallpox. c Tree-burial * is characteristic of the indigenous Siamese, 
as distinct from the Malays on the one hand and from the Bangkok 
officials and from Chinamen on the other, throughout the Patam States. The 
skulls from Sai Kau belong to a different type from those collected at 
Nawngchik, but, seeing that the two places are only a few miles .apart, no 
great stress must be laid upon the fact, except in so far that it goes to prove 
the population of the state, even within the limits of one so-called race, to be 
a very mixed one. As before, when dealing with the Malay specimens, 1 will 
describe the two types separately. 
Skulls No . 23 and 24, Nawngchik Siamese, Ban Sai Kau. 
The sexual characters are well marked in the two skulls, the male 
specimen being altogether more massive than the female, and having a cubic 
capacity almost exactly one-tenth greater. Both skulls are those of fully 
adult persons, the condition of the sutures showing that early youth was 
past in both cases. Probably the male was rather older than the female. Both 
are more massive than any specimen representing the other type from the 
same state. 
Noma verticalis. 
The outline of both skulls in this aspect is ovoid, the male specimen 
being very much broader than the female, and also more asymmetrical. In 
neither does any part of the parietal region bulge out suddenly at either side. 
Both skulls are phaenozygous, the male specimen more so than the female. 
