ominent aquiline noses with a high bridge and
globular point turned down instead of up.

The lips were in no case unduly prominent, nor thick. They were almost
invariably kept tightly closed.

The form of the palate was highly curious from an anthropological point
of view. It was almost rectangular, the angles of the front part being
slightly wider than a right angle.

The front teeth were of great beauty, and were not set, as in most jaws,
on a more or less marked curve, but were almost on a straight line--the
incisors being almost absolutely vertical and meeting the side teeth at
an angle of about 60 deg.. The upper teeth overlapped the lower ones.

The chin was well developed--square and flattened in the Papuan types,
but receding, flat and small in the Malay types.

Both types were absolutely hairless on the face and body, which was
partly natural and partly due to the tribal custom of pulling out
carefully, one by one, each hair they possessed on the upper lip and upon
the body--a most painful process. The women--as we shall see--in sign of
deep mourning, also plucked out each hair of the scalp.

A striking characteristic of the head--in Papuan types--was the great
breadth of the maximum transverse of the head, and the undue prominence
of the supra-orbital ridges. Also, the great height of the forehead and
its great width in its upper part were typical of the race. The maximum
antero-posterior diameter of the skull was equal, in many cases, to the
vertical length of the head, taken from the angle of the jaw to the apex
of the skull.

The ears nearly invariably showed mean, under-developed lobes, but,
strangely enough, were otherwise well shaped, with gracefully defined and
chiselled curves. They were not unduly large, with a wonderfully
well-formed concha, which fact explained why the acoustic properties of
their oral organs were perfect. They made full use of this in
long-distance signalling by means of acute whistles, of which the Bororos
had a regular code.

The favourite form of earring adopted by the Bororos was a brass ring
with a metal or shell crescent, not unlike the Turkish moon, but I do not
think that this ornament was of Bororo origin. Very likely it was
suggested by the cheap jewellery imported into Brazil by Turkish and
Syrian traders.

They displayed powerful chests, with ribs well covered with flesh and
muscle. With their dark yellow skins they were not unlike beautiful
bronze torsi. The