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PYGMIES AND EOREST NEGROES 



to an ordinary under-sized negro, but wherever this broad, large-wiuged nose 

 is seen, the individual possessing it either belongs to the Pygmy-Prognathous 

 group by birth, or is a member of a superior negro tribe, reverting by 

 atavism to this jirimitive stock. Another marked feature of the Pygmy- 



Prognathous negroes is 

 the long upper lip, a 

 distinctly simian char- 

 acter. The upper lip 

 is not largely everted, 

 as in the ordinary negro, 

 nor is the lower lip 

 perhaps quite so much 

 turned outwards, to show- 

 its inner mucous surface. 

 The mouth is large and 

 ape-like, the chin weak 

 and receding, the neck 

 is ordinarily short and 

 weak. It has been men- 

 tioned that the hair of 

 the head is of the closely 

 curled Negro type, but 

 a curious feature in many 

 of these Pygrnies (a 

 feature, so far as I am 

 aware, confined to the 

 yellow-skinned type) is 

 the tendency on the part 

 of the head-hair to be 

 reddish, more especially 

 over the frontal part of 

 the head. In all the 

 red or yellow-skinned 

 types of Pygmies which 

 I have seen, I have never 

 observed head-hair which 

 was absolutely black ; 

 it varies in colour between greyish greenish brown and reddish. This is 

 illustrated in my coloured drawing of two Pygmies. 



In the blacker type of Pygmy the buttocks sometimes attain considerable 

 development and prominence, recalling, in a slight -degree, a feature which 

 is pushed to an extraordinary exaggeration in the Hottentot-Bushmen race 



287. TWO BAMBUTE PYGMIES. (THE FIGURE ON THE LEFT IS'tHE 

 ONE WHO DIED IN UGANDA IN MARCH, Igoo, .AND WHOSE 

 SKELETON IS DESCRIBED ON r. 559) 



