Man, Past and PresentKeane, A. H. (Augustus Henry)
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Man, Past and Present
Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry)
Anthropology; Ethnology
[494] Indonesian type: undulating black hair, often tinged with red;
tawny skin, often rather light; low stature, 1.54 m.-1.57 m. (5 ft.
0-1/2 in.-5 ft. 1-3/4 in.); mesaticephalic head (76-78) probably
originally dolichocephalic; cheek-bones sometimes projecting; nose often
flattened, sometimes concave. It is difficult to isolate this type as it
has almost everywhere been mixed with a brachycephalic Proto-Malay
stock, but the Muruts of Borneo (cranial index 73) are probably typical
(A. C. Haddon, _The Races of Man_, 1909, p. 14).
[495] Recent literature on this area includes F. A. Swettenham, _The
Real Malay_, 1900, _British Malaya_, 1906; W. W. Skeat, _Malay Magic_,
1900; N. Annandale and H. C. Robinson, _Fasciculi Malayenses_, 1903; W.
W. Skeat and C. O. Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, 1903.
[496] J. Leyden, _Malay Annals_, 1821, p. 44.
[497] In some places quite recent, as in Rembau, Malay Peninsula, whose
inhabitants are mainly immigrants from Sumatra in the seventeenth
century; and in the neighbouring group of petty Negri Sembilan States,
where the very tribal names, such as _Anak Acheh_, and _Sri Lemak
Menangkabau_, betray their late arrival from the Sumatran districts of
Achin and Menangkabau.
[498] _The Malay Archipelago_, p. 310.
[499] For Celebes see Von Paul und Fritz Sarasin, _Reisen in Celebes
ausgefuehrt in den Jahren 1893-6 und 1902-3_, 1905, and _Versuch einer
Anthropologie der Insel Celebes_, 1905.
[500] In 1898 a troop of Javanese minstrels visited London, and one of
them, whom I addressed in a few broken Malay sentences, resented in his
sleepy way the imputation that he was an Orang-Malayu, explaining that
he was _Orang Java_, a Javanese, and (when further questioned) _Orang
Solo_, a native of the Solo district, East Java. It was interesting to
notice the very marked Mongolic features of these natives, vividly
recalling the remark of A. R. Wallace, on the difficulty of
distinguishing between a Javanese and a Chinaman when both are dressed
alike. The resemblance may to a small extent be due to "mixture with
Chinese blood" (B. Hagen, _Jour. Anthrop. Soc._ Vienna, 1889); but
occurs over such a wide area that it must mainly be attributed to the
common origin of the Chinese and Javanese peoples.
[501] A. H. Keane, _Eastern Geography_, 2nd ed. 1892, p. 121.
[502] _Academy_, May 1, 1897, p. 469.
[503] Cool, p. 139.
[504] _The Malay Archipelago_, p. 175.
[505] In _Malay Sketches_, 1895.
[506] Cf. M. A. Czaplicka on Arctic Hysteria in _Aboriginal Siberia_,
1914, p. 307.
[507] On these national pastimes see Sir Hugh Clifford, _In Court and
Kampong_, 1897, p. 46 sq.
[508] _Cujo officio he rubar e pescar_, "whose business it is to rob and
fish" (Barros). Many of the Bajaus lived entirely afloat, passing their
lives in boats from the cradle to the grave, and praying Allah that they
might die at sea.
[509] Thucydides, _Pel. War_, I. 1-16.
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