Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

NOTE ON ''FASCICULI MALA YENSES" 97
craniometrical study of these. It will be noted that
the Orang Laut and Orang Bukit, although separated
by Mr. Annandale, are yet closely associated physically.
When the general results of the expedition are reviewed,
it becomes evident, in the first place, that the Semang
and the Sakai types are connected by transitional
forms so numerous that it is only from the examination
of very large numbers of individuals that the two
extreme forms can be differentiated. It is particu-
larly to be noted that the cephalic index fails con-
spicuously to differentiate the two, whereas the stature
is a more reliable characteristic, and it is from this,
with the skin-colour and hair-characters, that evidence
upon which the distinction is based is to be obtained.
In the second place, the Samsams of the Trang coast
(as is also the case with the South Perak Malays)
stand, as indeed might have been expected, quite apart
from the Semang and Sakai. Thirdly, as regards the
results of the Skeat expedition, the characters of the
Pangans measured by Messrs. Skeat and Laidlaw fall
within the range of variation established by the more
numerous observations in the Fasciculi Malayenses.
When we turn to the craniological side we find that
the Pangan skull provided by Mr. Skeat possesses
characters which bring it also into line with the
Semang and Sakai group of Messrs. Annandale and
Robinson in everything except cranial capacity, which
in the former example is greater than in any case
observed by the authors of Fasciculi Malayenses.
Then comes the extraordinary case of Grubauer's
Semang skull.^ This, although microcephalic, provides
the unusually high cephalic index-figure of 85, which
carries it far beyond the range of indices otherwise
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Cf. Man, No. iS, 1903.
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