Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

I RA CE- CHA RA CTERS OF SA VA GE MALAYS 8
Miklucho-Maclay figures a woman of the river
Leba, a tributary of the Endau, age about i8 years,
and mother of two children ; height
1420 mm. ;^ head
brachycephalic ; index 81. The hair was frizzled, and
for this reason Miklucho-Maclay selected her to figure.
She cannot then be regarded as a typical example of
the Wild Tribes (" Orang Liar") of that neighbour-
hood — who are in all probability identical with
Logan's Benua-Jakun,—as Maclay speaks of meeting
with individuals with frizzled hair only " here and
there."
A male Jakun ("Orang Utan ") from Garib, on a
tributary of the Endau, is also figured by the f same
author. His height is 1500 mm. ;^ cephalic index 79 ;
age about 18. "The face is remarkable owing to the
small forehead, a broad, slightly projecting nose, thick
lips, narrow under-jaw, and receding chin. The hair
is of Malayan type."
The third person figured, a woman of the Jakun
("Orang Utan") Sletar, belongs to a branch of the
Orancr Laut.'^
It is difficult to form any estimate of the numbers
of the Benua-Jakun of Johor.
Maclay remarks that these tribes are gradually
becoming extinct, and attributes it to the constant
advance of the Malay and Chinese population, and to
frequent intermarriage between the Malays and the
Jakun (" Utan") women ; the latter race is becoming
intermixed into the former, and this mixed race is fast
increasinof.
But it would have been more consistent had he said
' In urig. 1.42 inches (sic). O. Sletar see Lapicque, Toiii\ dti
- In orii,'. 1.50 inches (.f/c). .'/., N'.S. ii. (1896), V^'^ sem. pp.
^ I'or other illustrations of the 5S, 59.
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