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A NEGRITO-TAGALOG CROSS. 



Although this man (25 years old, 4 feet, 4^ inches high) claimed to be half Tagalog, his type is 

 purely that of the Mariveles Negrito,, the purest of the Philippine Negritos and most 

 resembling the original Australoid stock. "The only other undisputed members of the 

 Negrito race, besides those found in the Philippines," says David P. Barrows, "are the 

 Andaman islanders and the Semang of the Malay peninsula." "He is a scattered survivor 

 of the pygmy negro race, at one time undoubtedly far more important and more numerous; 

 brachycephalous, platyrhinian, woolly headed, and, when unaffected by the higher culture 

 of the surrounding peoples, a pure forest dwelling savage." This photograph of an inmate 

 of Bilibid Prison, Manila, is from the "Album of Philippine Types" by Daniel Folkmar, 

 Manila, 1904. (Figure 12.) 



types are to be found there. Among 

 Europeans the other types resemble the 

 Iberian; among negroes the other types 

 resemble the Australoid; and among 

 Orientals the other types resemble the 

 Primitive. 



May it be presumed that the Primi- 

 tive and Iberian types conjoined in 

 prehistoric times at some place in the 



East of Asia or nearby, and produced by 

 fusion the Australoid. From this union 

 innumerable offshoots have sprung in 

 Southern AvSia, the islands bordering 

 that region, and in Africa. The Primi- 

 tive typs remains pure in parts of the 

 East, and the Iberian type in Europe. 

 If this hypothesis be untrue, the reverse 

 of it should be considered; viz., the 



