FILIPINO EARS. 



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AX ODD TYPE. 



Once, when riding tlirougii Malate on tlie street car, I was startled 

 by seeing an old Filipino with a most peculiar ear. The old man was 

 small, slender, wizened, and almost baldheaded, with skin like old, 

 washed leather. He had a sliort, flat nose, broad upper lip, and project- 

 ing jaws. His head sloped almost direct!}' from heavy brow ridges to 

 the wide parietal region, being narrow in front and fiat on top and behind. 

 The ear was triangular in shape, straight out from the head above, and 

 from the upper border tlie lielix passed diagonally downward and inward 

 to the cheek, where it was firmly attached without inter^'ening lobule. 

 The upper border of the ear presented the form of a scroll as indicated 

 by sketches hastily made at the time. (Fig. 19.) 



Since then I have seen six men of similar type, although not so 

 pronounced in the physical characteristics. I am inclined to believe 

 this is an aboriginal and not a pathologic type, because the Malay and 

 Xegroid ears, although different in detail resemble this ear in some 

 particulars. These three types of ears resemble one form of Negro ear 

 in America as portrayed by Hrdlicka.'' 



Fig. 18. — Negro ear (Hrdlicka); copied 

 from photograph. 



Fig. 19. — An odd type. Filipino; seliomatic 

 sketch from life. 



'•' Hrdlicka, A. ; Anthropological Investigations on One Thousand White and 

 Colored Children of Both Sexes. The Inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum. 



