Dayakid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

Average Face

Averaging the portraits behind Dayakid leaves the features that repeat and erases the ones that do not. That is exactly how the Dayakid composite below was built: individual photographs were aligned and statistically merged, exaggerating shared structure into a single reference face that no actual person looks like.

Composite source: Human Phenotypes — Dayakid

Geographic Distribution

Dayakid is documented across Southeast Asia, with its historical reference center near 1.4° N, 113.7° E. The coordinates mark where the type was most characteristic roughly 1500 years ago; population movements since then have scattered and blended the distribution far beyond that point.

Physical Characteristics

Medium brown skin with straight or wavy hair.

• Short, meso- brachyskelic, endomorph to ectomorph
• Mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic with a mildly platyrrhine, concave nose
• Lips relatively thick, brow ridges marked, face broad, angular and low, chin weak, prognathy weak and Mongolian folds rare

Historical Background

Proto Malayid subtype, the insular counterpart of Palaungids, predates the arrival of Deutero Malayids. Has thus developed a stronger tropical adaption, showing Brasiliform features. Usually found in the interior of larger Sunda and Philippine islands. Purest in Dayaks of Borneo, also common in Batak, Kubu, Toradja, Bugi, Bontoc, Ibaloi, Isnag, Nabaloi, Kankani, Bonto, Kalinga, Ifuago, Jakun, sometimes Taiwanese, Malagasy, Polynesians, and others.

Research History & Naming

Every label in the historical catalogue has an author and a date, and Dayakid has accumulated its share of competing attributions. For Dayakid, the literature extract below shows the naming chain — from the first definition through the later revisions that shaped the current entry.

Named and described as Dayakid by Lundman (1967) and linka ( 1978 , 1981 , 1987 ), Glinka et al. (2010) . Biasutti (1967) called it Punan. Earlier classifications combined it with other types in Proto Malayid ( Sarasin, 1905 ; Eickstedt, 1934 ; Weinert, 1965 ), Indonesian ( Hooton, 1946 ; Cole, 1965 ) or East Veddid ( Eickstedt, 1944 ).

Comparison With Nearby Phenotypes

Ranked by great-circle distance from Dayakid's reference center, these are the five nearest documented phenotypes — the closest being Proto Malayid at 562 km. Overlapping distributions like these are exactly what makes the quiz hard, and the Proto Malayid row is where to start looking.

Dayakid in the Game

When the Dayakid composite shows up in the quiz, players who know the Southeast Asia distribution pattern have the edge. The reference answer sits near 1.4° N, 113.7° E; pins on the wrong continent score close to zero, so even a rough regional instinct beats a precise but misdirected pin.

Dayakid Phenotype FAQ

Where does the Dayakid phenotype come from?

Historical sources center the Dayakid phenotype on 1.4° N, 113.7° E (Southeast Asia). Treat that as a rough anchor: the type appeared across a wider surrounding area — its nearest documented neighbors, Proto Malayid and Toalid, sit 562 and 824 km from the reference point — and its present-day distribution no longer matches the historical map.

What does the Dayakid phenotype look like?

The composite emphasizes recurring traits: medium brown skin with straight or wavy hair. The full trait list for Dayakid appears in the physical characteristics section above.

Is the Dayakid phenotype a race or a nationality?

No. A phenotype is a recurring bundle of visible traits documented by historical anthropologists across a population — for Dayakid, patterns such as medium brown skin with straight or wavy hair. The Dayakid entry is not a genetic ancestry, not a nationality, and not a statement about any individual person. Two people from the same country can match completely different phenotypes — one resembling Dayakid, another closer to Proto Malayid — and one phenotype can span many modern borders.

How does Dayakid appear in the game?

When the Dayakid face comes up in Classic Daily or Challenge Mode, you pin the world map where you believe the type is historically most common, and the score decays with your distance to 1.4° N, 113.7° E. The nearest documented type, Proto Malayid, lies about 562 km away, so regional placement usually carries most of the score.

References & Literature

Primary sources for the Dayakid entry, listed as cited in the historical literature. The naming and classification debates around Dayakid referenced above run through these works.

• Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
• Glinka, J. 1978. Gestalt und Herkunft. Beitrag zur anthropologischen Gliederung Indonesiens. Stud. Inst. Anthropos 25. St. Augustin.
• Glinka, J. 1981. Racial history of Indonesia. In: Schwidetzky, I.: Rassengeschichte der Menschheit, Asien In: Japan, Indonesien, Ozeanien. R. Odenbourg. München. Wien.
• Glinka, J. 1987. Antropologi Ragawi Handout Mahasiswa. Surabaya: FISIP Universitas Airlangga.
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• Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
• Sarasin, P. 1905. Versuch einer Anthropologie der Insel Celebes II. Wiesbaden.
• Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
• Weinert, H. 1965. Die heutigen Rassen der Menschheit. In: Lundwig, B. and H. Plank. Handbuch der Biologie. Vol 9 (2).
• Hooton, E.A. 1946. Up from the Ape. Rev. ed. Macmillan Company . New York.
• Cole, S. 1965. Races of Man. Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London.
• Eickstedt, E. von. 1944. Rassendynamik von Ostasien. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin.

Related Phenotypes

If Dayakid interested you, these neighboring phenotype entries cover adjacent parts of the map with distinctly different trait bundles.

• Proto Malayid

  Southeast Asia · 562 km away

  Proto Malayid proper type. Relatively old element that probably arrived in the Sunda Archipelago during the period of land bridges in the la...

• Toalid

  Southeast Asia · 824 km away

  The easternmost Veddid type, usually shorter-skulled. The oldest living type of the Sunda Islands. More widespread in historic times and pro...

• Deutero Malayid

  Southeast Asia · 1,075 km away

  The insular counterpart of Shanids. Several components gave rise to this type in mainland Asia: Proto Malayid and Proto Sinid consumed other...

• Khmerid

  Southeast Asia · 1,318 km away

  Intermediate type between South Mongolid and Senoid native to Southern Indochina. The type is the result of intermixture followed by cultura...

• Semangid

  Southeast Asia · 1,342 km away

  Paleolithic, Negriform phenotype found in the forests of the Malay Peninsula, similar to Aetid. Even older and rarer than the cohabitant Sen...

Further Reading

Background articles from the blog that explain where the Dayakid type fits, how these composites are built, and what a face can and cannot tell you.

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• Ethnicity Guesser Game: How the Answer Space Shapes a Round

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