The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine TribeCole, Fay-Cooper
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The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe
Cole, Fay-Cooper
Tinguian (Philippine people)
_Deniker_ (p. 578) gives the average height of 15,582 males, mostly
Hakka of Kwang-tung, as 1.622. The cephalic index of 61 living subjects
and 84 crania, principally from Canton, he finds to be--Living 81.2;
crania 78.2.
_Martin_ [35] presents the following data: Average height of
males--1.614; average height of females--1.498. Cephalic index
(49 males)--81.8. Length-Height index (49 males)--66.5. Nasal index
(49 males)--77.7. [36]
_South Perak Malay_ [37]
_Observations by Annandale and Robinson_ (_Fasciculi Malayenses,
Pt_. I, pp. 105 _et seq_., _London_, 1903).
37 males Range
Average
Height, standing meters 1.488 to 1.763 1.594
Length of head " .173 to .198 .182
Breadth of head " .141 to .162 .149
Height of head (tragus to vertex) " .119 to .146 .135
Breadth of zygomatic arches " .120 to .150 .139
Length of nose " .0413 to .0525 .0477
Breadth of nose " .0337 to .0437 .0358
Cephalic index 82.3
Length-Height index 73.9
Nasal index 81.2
_Color_--Varies from dark olive to red; less commonly olive or
yellowish
white.
_Eyes_--Black, sometimes reddish brown.
_Hair_--Appears to be straight in most cases, but being cut short a
slight waviness might not be noticed. Black.
A comparison of these figures with those of our Luzon groups brings out
several interesting points. It shows that the Tinguian are not related
to the Chinese, "because of their tall stature;" for they are, as a
matter of fact, shorter than either the Chinese or Igorot. It is also
evident that they resemble the southern Chinese no more than do the
people of Bontoc. Further it is seen that both the Tinguian-Ilocano
and the Chinese show greater likeness to the Perak Malay than they
do to each other. As a matter of fact, we find no radical differences
between any of the peoples discussed; despite evident minor variations,
the tribes of northwestern Luzon approach a common type, and this type
appears not to be far removed from the dominant element in southern
China, Indo-China, and Malaysia generally, a fact which probably can
be attributed to a common ancestry in times far past. [38]
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