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wants to stick to the différence between Negritoes and Papuans, for then I should like to 

 call them simply "little" Papuans. 



The peoples of Australasia hâve proved indeed that the human stature decreases 

 gradually to pigmy-size. The few tribcs that hâve an average standing-height of less than 

 150 cm. are not distinctly separated from the taller ones. And since there are several Dutch- 

 Indian tribes (Dyak 155,9cm., people of Nias 154,7 cm.), to whom even the word "Pigmoïd" 

 is usually not applied, that are scarcely taller than the Semang (152,8 cm) and shorter than 



the Vedda and Toala, it seems to me 

 that the word "Pigmy" has lost much 

 of its typifying character. The Pigmy 

 seems not to be proof against anthropo- 

 metry; even the African Negrillo is no 

 exception to this. SCHLAGINHAUFEN [191] 

 présents us the chief information in a very 

 deserving review. Speaking of the "Wert- 

 volle Arbeit", of PoUTRIN and CZEKA- 

 NOWSKY, he says: " Vereinfacht haben sich 

 freilich die anthropologischen Problemen 

 dièses Gebietes durch die Vertiefung nicht; 

 denn ganz abgesehen davon, dass wir 

 uns durch POUTRIN (1910) vor die 

 Frage gestellt se h en, ob wir 

 uberhaupt noch die Existenz von 

 Pygmàen im Zen traie n Afrika 

 annehmen durfen, (spac. by my- 

 self) lôst sich die anscheinende Ein- 

 heit dieser Gruppen in mehrere Typen 

 auf." Further he observes, how there is 

 hardly anything left of their brachy- 

 cephaly; the nearer examined groups — 

 proper Pigmies and Batwa(CzEKANOWSKY), 

 Babinga and Batua (POUTRIN) — proved 

 ail to be mesocephalic, with a cephalic 

 index averaging 78 — 79,5. A brachycephalic type has been signalled, but appears to want 

 more thorough examination. As for the standing-height of the four groups mentioned above, 

 only the first is dwarfish, namely averaging 140,8 cm., the others measure 159(1), 152,6 and 

 152,2 cm. So PoUTRIN saw during his African travels no more pigmies than most of the 

 travellers in New Guinea ! And with a single dwarfish tribe, like that of CZEKANOWSKY in 

 Central-Africa and that of WOLLASTON — RAWLING in New-Guinea, as the first member of a 

 continued séries of taller ones, one proves hardly more than with some values under 150 cm., 

 existing in the regular frequency-curve of a single tribe. 



But at ail events, we still hâve the quite isolated Andamanese and Aeta. This is quite 

 true. However, it is exactly their total isolation that makes them inappropriate for creating 



Fig. 21. Am 



A Tiruorini-man with boys. Swart-valley bivouac. 



