is lack of unity and the great area they inhabit, their
dialects are mutually intelligible, and in other respects they are so
similar that I believe we are justified in regarding them as one group
linguistically, physically, and culturally.

DESCRIPTION.

Measurements made on fifteen men and five women gave the following
results:

Height--Men: Maximum 161.3 cm., minimum 145.1 cm., average 153.9 cm.

Women: Maximum 152.3 cm., minimum 144.1 cm., average 146.8 cm.

Cephalic index--Men: Maximum 89.1, minimum 76.3, average 84.6.

Women: Maximum 84.8, minimum 75.2, average 81.3.

Length-height index--Men: maximum 78.7, minimum 64.5, average 74.2.

Women: Maximum 81.8, minimum 75.0, average 77.4.

From these figures it appears that there is considerable variation
between individuals, but a closer study of the charts shows that the
majority of those measured come closer to the averages than do the
members of any other group here mentioned (Plates LXIV-LXIX).

Both sexes wear the hair long and comb it to a knot at the back of the
head. The women generally bang the hair over the forehead, while the men
allow a lock to fall in front of each ear. The hair is brown-black and
generally slightly wavy, although four individuals with straight hair
were seen.

The forehead is high, and in about half the persons observed somewhat
retreating; however, full, vaulted foreheads are by no means uncommon.
The distance from the vertex to the tragus is uniformly great.

The cheek bones are quite prominent, while the whole face tapers from
above so as to be somewhat angular. In twenty per cent of the men the
root of the nose seemed to be continuous with the supra-orbital ridge,
which, in such cases, was strongly marked. In general the root of the
nose is broad, low, and depressed, and there is a tendency for the ridge
to be somewhat concave. The lips are thick and bowed, but there is
little or no prognathism.

The skin of the body is not tattooed or mutilated in any other way, but
the eyebrows are often shaved to a thin line, and the teeth are filed
and blackened. Filing was formerly done with small stones but imported
files are now used for this purpose. The coloring is effected by chewing
the roots of the _anmon_ vine and applying to the teeth the "sweat"
caught on a steel blade, held above burning bark of the _magawan_ tree.
This practice seems to have no significance other than that of
beautifying the person and saving the youth