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IV. HERE are the Raja of Gprontalo, N. Celêbes (Fig. 22), the chief of Sendegeassi, S. Nias, West Coast Sumatra (Fig. 23), and two natives of Jilolo (Fig. 24), all supposed to be more or less typical Malays whom it will be profitable to compare with Figs. 19, 20, 21, representing the Caucasian pre-Malay or Indonesian element in the Archipelago. In Fig. 25 we have Mohamed-Yamalal-Alam, Sultan of the Sulu Archipelago, who was compelled to accept Spanish supremacy in 1876. He is a pure Malay about thirty-four years old, like most of his subjects presenting a fine type far superior to that of the Malays of Malacca. Yet the Mongoloid element is unmistakably betrayed, especially in the high cheek-bones, presenting such a striking contrast to the regular European features of the Indonesians (see Figs. 19, 20, and 21). The portrait is from a photograph forwarded to France by MM. Montano and Rey, and originally published in La Nature, April 3, 1880.
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KEANE, A. The Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races—Types and Affinities 1 . Nature 23, 271–274 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023271a0
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