Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

RACIAL AFFINITIES 589
The surface of the bones is uniformly smooth and yellowish in colour, on the
right lighter, on the left with a strong inclination to brown ; their entire asjject
shows that the person had not been long buried. All muscle and sinew attachments
are weak, some not developed at all. Moreover, the " plana tempor-
alia " are but little developed ; their upper edge does not reach the parietal
eminences.
The brow-ridges are practically non-existent, the glabella not sunken, the
tubera but feebly indicated. The middle portion of the brow, which is otherwise
moderately straight and somewhat narrow, is symmetrically arched. At the
glabella there is a small horizontal scar. The sagittal arc has a sharp return
curve, is on the whole long, in front somewhat flattened, descending from the
line of the parietal protuberance in a strongly -marked curve; the occiput, as
already remarked, projects. There is no occipital protuberance, but in its place
a slightly irregular rectangular depression marked by large emissary veins. The
foramen magnum is roundly oval, 32 to 27 mm. in diameter, with an index
of 84.3-
The temporal region is somewhat irregular ; stenokrotaphy is marked on both
sides, especially on the left ; a shallow, slightly funnel-shaped groove traverses
the angulus parietalis. The temporal ala; are large, with strong foramina.
The sphenoparietal suture is short, 7 mm. The temporal squamx are somewhat
outwardly arched. The external auditory meatus is large and round.
The face is small and noticeably narrow. The index is chamaprosopic (77.7).
The zygomatic arches are delicate, almost depressed. The bi-jugal diameter is
only 117 mm. The orbits are very deep and high, arched inwards and above
(diagonal). The index is hypsikonchic (86.1). The nose is broad and much
flattened. The transverse diameter measures at the root 12, in the middle 11,
below 18 mm. The nasal bones are quite uninjured and large. The naso-frontal
suture projects upwards. The bridge is broad, flattened in the middle, and
towards the middle on each side a large emissarj' foramen is seen. The aperture
is large, but at the same time somewhat broad and low. The nasal spine is
moderately developed. The index is platyrrhine (54.3). The upper jaw is
delicate, short, slightly prognathic, but at the same time verj' atrophied ; the
incisors and the canine are absent on the left, and their alveoli are filled up.
Only a few molars and premolars remain, and these are thickly incrusted with
lime, and are blackened with betel-nut juice. The palate is Icptostaphylinc.
The under jaw is very small and atrophied, all the teeth are lost and the
alveoli are filled up, but in the region of the second molars there are large, open
cavities, and in the region of the incisors there is a projection of the alveolar
margin. The chin is small, but prominent ; the rami are delicate, and the pro-
cessus lemuriani feeble.'
With exception of the facial and palatal index, strong differences everywhere
present themselves, but the face and the maxilla cannot be determined
exactly on account of the great alteration which they have undergone. Meanwhile,
however, I wish to submit that the calculated indices for these two
parts probably give the correct relation. Some differences may be referable to
the sex. Thus the difference of the orbits which, in the case of the male Semang
(Pangan), are chamcekonchic, in the female Sakai (lilandas) are hypsikonchic.
But the contrast between the cephalic and the nasal indices is so strongly marked
that a strongly marked distinction of the two races must be assumed if the two
skulls now lying before us represent real tribal types. On this point little can be
said. At the meeting of 21st November 1891, at which I communicated the
indices of living subjects calculated from the measurements of H. Vaughan-Stevens
among the ten .Sakai (Senoi) measured, I could only produce one dolichocephalic
and two mesaticephalic ; on the other hand, seven were brachycephalic. But
1 r. B. G. A. xxvi. (Virchow) 356.