Across Unknown South America

by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Bororo Children.

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Bororo Women.

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I met other tribes of Bororos as I went along, and I was able to add to the curious information already collected and given in previous chapters. It appeared that at the birth of a child the head, while the skull was still soft, was intentionally compressed and ban-

	Bororos.	Bilan, Island of Mindanao Philippine Archipelago.	Manobo.	Mahommedans West coast of Mindanao I.	Guiangas.	Samal.	Bagobos.	Ilocanos.	Mandayas (Gandia).	Tirurays.	Mansakas (of Panter).	Yacanes.
	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.	Metre.
Vertical maximum length of head	0.264	0.215	0.222	0.212	0.236	0.222	0.234	0.229	0.233	0.240	0.221	0.220
Bizygomatic breadth	0.1415	0.130	0.131	0.137	0.138	0.130	0.132	0.125	0.129	0.130	0.123	0.131
Maximum breadth of forehead	0.145
Minimum breadth of forehead at lower part of temples	0.130	0.133	0.124	0.131	0.126	0.126	0.136	0.131	0.127	0.128	0.130	0.131
Maximum length of cranium (from forehead to back of head)	0.199	0.215	0.193	0.181	0.183	0.173	0.183	—	0.199	0.192	0.184	0.185
Breadth of skull one inch above ear	0.1945
Maximum breadth of lower jaw	0.132	0.132	0.123	—	0.117	0.121	0.124	0.116	0.109	0.117	0.110	0.125
Length of nose	0.064	0.060	0.050	0.052	0.058	0.052	0.055	0.057	0.062	0.053	0.056	0.060
Breadth of nose at nostrils	0.0375	0.043	0.037	0.041	0.035	0.045	0.037	0.037	0.037	0.043	0.037	0.039
Distance between eyes	0.033	0.032	0.034	0.030	0.031	0.033	0.032	0.034	0.028	0.033	0.035	0.031
Length of ear	0.066	0.055	0.052	0.056	0.074	0.063	0.072	0.060	0.065	0.062	0.060	0.063
Length of mouth	0.057	0.065	0.050	0.050	0.056	0.055	0.050	—	0.052	0.057	—	0.055
Length of lower jaw from ear to centre of chin	0.1365
Breadth of upper lip	0.025	0.023	0.021	0.017	0.023	0.020	0.027	0.024	0.022	0.024	0.021	0.020
Breadth of lower lip	0.020

N.B.—For further particulars see "The Gems of the East," by A. H. Savage Landor.