As a result of their slave raids, and the adoption of captive women and their offspring into the family, we find great variation in the members of the tribe (Plates LXI-LXII).
Measurements on twenty-seven men gave the following results:
Height:—Maximum 169.0 cm.; minimum 146.0 cm.; average 158.3 cm.
Cephalic Index:—Maximum 86.4; minimum 71.7; average 78.1.
Length-Height. Index:—Maximum 76.5; minimum 61.9; average 68.4.
If these figures are compared with those of the Bagobo it will be seen that there is little difference in the averages; however, this similarity is less real than the figures indicate, for with the Kulaman there are more individuals at both extremes. For example: the cephalic indices of eight out of the twenty-seven were 80 or above, while six were less than 75; again, in the length-height indices six were above 70 and an equal number less than 65. In other respects there is such variation that it is hard to generalize. It is noticeable that there is a greater tendency toward prognathism than we have heretofore met with; the forehead, while high, is moderately retreating and the supra-orbital ridges prominent in most individuals; the hair is brown-black and is inclined to curl in locks. The wide variation of type within the tribe is to be expected when we know that its members have been constantly recruited from the neighboring tribes. It is even possible that a considerable number of slave women from distant islands may have been added to the group by purchase from the Moro.[77]
[77] According to early writers, the Moro of the Gulf carried on a lucrative slave trade with this and other tribes. As the Moro raids were made by water and often reached as far as the Northeastern coast of this island and south to the Celebes it is quite possible that these remote districts have helped in the upbuilding of the tribe under discussion.
The religious beliefs have many points in common with those of the neighboring tribes, but there are some which require special notice.
Two powerful beings, TimanEm and his wife Diwata[78] are above all other spirits.
[78] The Padada people say the term diwata is a name which may be applied to the timanEm, of whom there are two, a male and a female.