The physical characters of the races and peoples of Borneo

A.C Haddon (1)

1 School of Anthropology

THE following sketch of the races and peoples of Borneo is based upon the observations of the Cambridge Expedition to Sarawak in 1899 and those of Dr. A. W. Nieuwenhuis in his expeditions to Netherlands Borneo in 1894, 1896- 1897, and 1898-1900 (Quer durcit Bomeo, Leiden, vol. i., 1904, vol. ii., 1907). It is generally acknowledged that in Borneo, as in other islands of the East Indian Archipelago, the Malays inhabit the coasts and the aborigines the interior*, though in some these reach the coast while Malayised tribes have pushed inland up the rivers, a sharp distinction between the two being frequently obliterated where they overlap. The condition, however, is much more complicated as we can now distinguish at least two main races among the aborigines.

Mots clés: Anthropometry; Borneo; Ethnology

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

A.C Haddon. The physical characters of the races and peoples of Borneo. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations, Macmillan and co, pp.311-341, 1912. ⟨halshs-00751289⟩