The Philippine Journal of Scirnce, 



D. General Biology, Ethnology and Anthropology. 



Vol. VI, No. 2, April, 1911. 



FILIPINO EARS: III. NEGRITO. 



By Robert Bennett Bean. 

 {From the Anatomical Laboratory, Philippine Medical School, Manila, P. I.) 



The Negritos of the Philippines liave been studied at close range by 

 Meyer, Montano, Eeed, and others, and from a distance by many anthro- 

 pologists, including Virchow and Blumentritt. Dean C. Worcester, Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, has visited Negi-itos wherever they exist in the 

 Archipelago, and it is through his generosity in placing at my disposal 

 the photographs of his inimitable collection and of the Bureau of 

 Science, from which materials are drawn for this and subsequent studies 

 of the non-Christian tribes, that I am enabled to produce this publica- 

 tion. 



This is the first of a series dealing with the ears and other physical 

 characteristics of the Philippine Islanders of the interior, and follows 

 studies previously completed of the ears of Manila pedestrians and riders, 

 Bilibid prisoners, morgue subjects, and the men and women of Taytay, 

 Eizal Province, Luzon. 



_ The Negritos are the first of the non-Christian tribes selected for 

 study, (1) because they are relatively few in number and, undoubtedly, 

 are gradually disappearing, since they lose their purity when they come 

 into contact with surrounding peoples; (2), because ven' few studies of 

 Negritos have been made dealing with the physical characteristics of the 

 living; (3), because no previous study has been made of their ears; and 

 finally (4), because a large number of representative photographs of 

 Negritos from many parts of the Islands could be obtained.^ 



'The photographs have been derived from several sources, and have been taken 

 at various times by different men. therefore some difficulty has been experienced 

 in reproducing them uniformly. The photographs of the Negritos of Bataan or 

 Mariveles Mountain, of Isabela and Pampanga Provinces, and some of those of 

 Palawan Island and elsewhere, were taken by Dean C. Worcester. The Negritos 

 of Zambales were photographed by William A. Reed and others; those of Cagayan 

 by Charles Martin, of the Bureau of Science; the Tinitian and others (Bataks) 

 in the Island of Palawan by Lieutenant E. Y. Miller while he was governor of 

 Palawan Province; and the photographs of the Negritos of the Island of Panay, 

 Provinces of Antique and Capiz, and Ambos Camarines, Luzon, were taken by 

 Doctor M. L. Miller, chief of the division of ethnology. Bureau of Science. These 

 are groups from which photographs are presented, with the addition of a few 

 others. 



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