. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. therefore markedly ofthe parabolic form. In this sknll it is also very high. The maxillae arenarrowest iti the dolichocephalic female. In all cases the posterior edgeof the vomer slopes considerably forwards as well as downwards. The characters of the mandible can be only imperfectly studied, itbeing lost in some instances and much atrophied in others. The chiefcharacter seems to be the absence of prominence of the chin: the sym-phesial angle is consequently high, approaching a righ
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. therefore markedly ofthe parabolic form. In this sknll it is also very high. The maxillae arenarrowest iti the dolichocephalic female. In all cases the posterior edgeof the vomer slopes considerably forwards as well as downwards. The characters of the mandible can be only imperfectly studied, itbeing lost in some instances and much atrophied in others. The chiefcharacter seems to be the absence of prominence of the chin: the sym-phesial angle is consequently high, approaching a right angle. Dentition is normal in all the skulls except the male No. 4, in which thelast upper molars, or wisdom teeth, are absent from skull is known, however, to Mr. Forbes to have belonged to a man be-yond middle age. The last molars have not been fully acquired in the skullof the youth No. 11. In size the teeth are large but not abnormally so,and are stained black in two of the male skulls, Nos. 4 and 10, and in thefemale skulls Nos. 7 and 1. In the male No. 10, the upper incisors and. FRONTALIS ET LATERALIS OF THE FEMALE DOLICHOCEPHALIC SKULL, NO 1.(WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.) canines have been filed away on the anterior surface, and stained black,making them more spade-like. This custom of deforming the teeth, andstaining them, is practised very commonly in Java and Birma, and else-where. The incisors and canines being absent in the other male skulls, itis impossible to say whether these teeth were deformed in them the females there is a trace of a similar deformation in No. 2, but thefiled teeth are not stained artificially. Grinding down the anterior upperand lower teeth horizontally, and staining them, seems to have beenpractised in Nos. 1 and 9. In the other skulls the teeth have been lost. Relation of the inhabitants of Timor-taut to those of adjacent countries.—That the skulls just describe
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