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6. — Notes On some Bushman Crania and Bones from the South 

 African Museum, Cape Town. — By Frank C, Shrubsall. 



The earliest renicains of the Bushmen peoples of South Africa would 

 appear to he those of the Strandloopers found in the caves along the 

 south-eastern seahoard. On cultural grounds these are said to be of 

 a somewhat different type to the inland Bushmen of the present day. 

 It therefore becomes a matter of some interest to compare the 

 features of the two. 



This paper is based primarily on a collection of skulls and skeletons 

 in the South African Museum, Cape Town, but other material has 

 been called on for comparison. 



The skulls and the bones of the skeletons have been separately 

 dealt with. 



The skulls are first of all described, and details as to the method 

 of measurement are given. 



The averages are compared with those obtained from surrounding 

 races. The purity of each stock is then tested, and it will be shown 

 that the Strandloopers are more homogeneous than the other Bush- 

 men. The Hottentots are then dealt with, and shown to be inter- 

 mediate in characters between the Strandloopers or primitive 

 Bushmen and the Bantu tribes. It appears that if the Hottentots 

 are a cross between these two races, the intermingling must 

 have taken place a long time ago, as the Hottentots' skulls form a 

 very homogeneous series. 



The Bushmen and Hottentots are then compared with the Pigmies 

 of Central Africa, whom in many respects they resemble, and with 

 the populace of Upper Egypt, with whom, from archaeological and 

 linguistic evidence, it has been thought they might have come in 

 contact. 



Finally, an attempt is made to suggest a possible explanation of 

 the present geographical distribution by a scattering of the Negro 



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