MAKIiXG ORNAMENTAL, SCAR PATTERNS 



The man has just had numerous cuts made into the skin of his chest, into which dirt 

 will be rubbed. The woman holds between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand the 

 piece of bamboo with which she did the cutting. 



in this custom. Indeed, they are more 

 feared by their Christian neighbors than 

 are the Ilongots. 



HABITS OE THE NEGRITOS 



The Negritos are generally considered 

 to be the true aborigines of the Philip- 

 pines, and are racially sharply distinct 

 from the other numerous tribes of the 

 Islands, except tke Ilongots of Luzon, 

 the Mangayaris of Mindoro, and the 

 Tagbanuas of Palawan, with whom they 

 have intermarried to a considerable ex- 

 tent. They are of low, sometimes even 

 dwarfish, stature, with very dark brown. 

 or black, skins. Their heads are covered 

 with closely curling hair and inany of 

 them have abundant woolly beards. They 

 often have so-called "pepper-corn" hairs 

 distributed very abundantly over their 

 bodies. Their noses are broad and flat, 

 their lips thick, their arms disproportion- 

 ately long. 



They do not tattoo their bodies, but 

 ornament them with scar patterns, pro- 

 duced by cutting through the skin with 

 sharp pieces of bamboo and rubbing dirt 

 into the wounds thus formed in order to 

 infect them and make good big scars ! 

 In this respect they differ from all other 

 wild peoples in the Philippines and agree 

 with the dwarfs of Africa, whose scar 

 patterns, as shown by photographs which 

 have been reproduced in the National 

 Geographic Magazine, are, in some in- 

 stances at least, practically identical with 

 those in vogue among the Philippine 

 Negritos (see pages 838, 839). 



The men wear small clouts, and the 

 women short skirts reaching from the 

 waist to the knee. They are very fond 

 of brightly colored cloth, scarlet being 

 preferred, but individuals who cannot 

 get cloth, and there are many such, use 

 instead the so-called "bark cloth" so 

 widely employed by inhabitants of the 



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