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APPENDIX
Vaughan-Stevens' Sakai Measurements (ed. Virchow).
Height of the men from 1422 to 1596 mm. (1594 in V. B. G. A. xxviii.
152).
Height of the women from 1341 to 1469 mm.
The variation between the men is 172 mm., among the women 128 mm.
Between the tallest man and shortest woman, 253 mm.
Three Sakai men attained a height of between 1500 and 1600 mm.
The shortest man was a 32-year-old Sakai of 1422 mm., all the men of the
other tribes measuring more than 1470 mm.
The smallest arm-stretch (1370 mm.) was that of a 22-year-old Sakai woman
whose height was 1424 mm., the difference against the arm-stretch being - 54,
and another whose height was 1469 mm. had an arm-stretch of 1463, a difference
of —6. On the other hand, a 42-year-old woman (1341 mm. in height) had an
arm-stretch of 1375, giving a difference in favour of the arm-stretch of -1-34.^
Page 58. Sakai Skull described by Virchow.
Let us now consider the Skull of the Central Sakai {'' Senoi") IVomati, the first
of its tribe which has reached Europe. Without doubt it is the skull of an old
woman, as the description will soon show. In capacity (1350 ccm.) it falls only
20 ccm. short of the E. Semang (Pangan) skull ; for a woman it may be
considered well -developed. Its horizontal circumference (495 mm.) is even
greater than that of the E. Semang (Pangan) skull, and its vertical circum-
ference (362 mm.) is almost equal to the latter.
Its form is orthodolichocephalic (L. B. I. 72.6; L. H. I. 73.2; O. H. I.
61.5). In the norma verticalis, as well as in the norma temporalis, it appears
correspondingly compressed and comparatively narrow. The lack of prominence
of the tubera, and the marked curvature of the upper occipital bone largely
contribute. The occipital index is calculated at 31.2, the basilar index at 50.2 ;
to the occiput belong accordingly more than one-third of the total length. The
percentage components of the sagittal arc are :
—
Frontal component, 34.8.
Parietal component, 35.9.
Occipital component, 29.2.
The parietal development is therefore the most marked, and in consequence
the occiput has the appearance of having been driven backwards.
In spite of the age of the individual, the condition of the sutures is very good.
Syntosis is entirely absent. Most of the sutures are simple, the lambdoid alone
being strongly indented in its upper part. Here, however, an exception must
be mentioned, inasmuch as the limbs of the suture on each side are interrupted
in their upper third ; here the suture runs inward almost horizontally, subsequently
rising fairly steeply and forming a triangular projection at the
lambda.
^ N.B. These measurements (of the across the breast in the usual way
arm-stretch) were taken by Vaughan- (Virchow, V.B.G.A. xxiii. 842, 843).
Stevens behind the back, instead of "- V. B. G. A. xxvi. (Virchow) 356.