FILIPINO EARS : III. NEGRITO. HI 



This plate exhibits Negrito women of the Primitive or Modified Prim- 

 itive types from Ambos Camarines, Mount Mariveles, and Palawan 

 Island. It is needless to point out the Primitive characteristics, but 

 the broad, flat nose mth depressed bridge and nostrils that open morvi 

 forward than downward, and the shelf-like lobule of the ear may be seen 

 on each individual. 



It may be of interest and significance that the Negrito women showii 

 in all the photographs are almost entirely of the Primitive type, whereas 

 the men are Iberian. If Pearson's law be true, that males inherit more 

 from the fathei"'s side and females from the mother's, then the men 

 who have impregnated the Negrito women were of the Iberian type and 

 the impregnated women were of the Primitive. 



The Negritos portrayed in Plate IV are variable blends of the 

 Iberian and Primitive. Figures 1 and 2 represent a purer Iberian ear 

 than the others. The concha is everted, the lobule attached directly to 

 the cheek at its lower margin, and there is a slight outward twist of 

 the \ipper part of the helix. The other features are blended, although 

 the nose is slightly aquiline. Figiires 3 and 4 represent a less pure 

 Iberian ear than figures 1 and 2. The ear has a Primitive bend oj' 

 knee at the junction of the lower and middle thirds, and the lobule tends 

 to form a shelf, but does not quite perfect the tendency. The nose is 

 large and straight and the other features are neither perfect Iberian 

 nor perfect Primitive. The Negrito of figures 5 and 6 is less Iberian 

 and more Primitive than the one of figures 3 and 4. The ear is very 

 slightly Iberian in the eversion of the concha and slightly spiral helix, 

 whereas the Primitive characteristics are marked in the rounded contour, 

 outward, overturned, upper helix, and shelf-like lobule. The other fea- 

 tures are blended Iberian and Primitive. 



The Negrito of figures 7 and 8 is very slightly Iberian, although the 

 nose is somewhat straight and the nostrils open downward. The ear is 

 blended, with Primitive characters predominating. 



Plate V presents variable, female blends. However, each partakes 

 largely of the Primitive type, and in none is the Iberian very well marked. 

 Figures 1 and 2 show almost pure Primitive ears, although the nose is 

 not Primitive. Figures 7 and 8 show forms simulating Iberian, but the 

 Primitive ear is still apparent. The forms of figures 3, 4, 5, and 8 

 are blends of varying nature more or less intermediate between those of 

 figures 1 and 2, and 7 and 8. The women again present Primitive, and 

 the men Iberian, characteristics in the blends as in the purer types. 



