Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

44 RACIAL AFFINITIES part
The average height of five adult males that v^e
measured was 1491 mm. (about 4 feet 9 inches), that
of three w^omen 1408 mm., or some 3^^ inches less.
The face was round, the forehead low, rounded,
narrow, and projecting, or, as it were, " swollen." The
nose was short and flattened, the nostrils much dis-
tended, and the breadth of the nose was remarkably
great, five adult males having an average of 10 1.2, and
three adult females an average of 97.4. The cheek-
bones were broad, and the lips were sometimes full and
turned outwards, or "everted," but not as a rule thick.
The jaws often protruded slightly, but I did not
see any case of marked prognathism. The ears were
small. The six front teeth in the upper jaw were
often filed so as to present a concave surface anteriorly,
in imitation of the common Malay practice. The
teeth as a rule were white and good, except in ad-
vanced age. In one or two cases only they were dis-
coloured with betel-juice, and in one case caries was
present. The milk-teeth of a child when examined were
perfectly normal and regular. The shoulders were com-
paratively broad. The forearms, with two exceptions,
appeared not to be so long relatively as they are in
the Andamanese. The exceptions were two Pangan
at Jarum, whose arms were so long as to present a
pithekoid character. But the number of persons observed
is too small to separate them from the Pangan
of Kelantan. The person was usually well developed.
The head measurements taken by ourselves give
a mesaticephalic index as an average ;
for five men the
average was 78.9, for three women 81. i. This feature,
however, is clearly variable, as one of the men (Pandak)
had an index of y^.^, and a Pangan at Jarum
one of 74.4, as against an index of 85 in the skull