THE PIGMIES. 



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M. MONTANO, 



12 Manthras Q) 

 8 Knabouis 

 2 Udais 

 2 Jakouns 



l m 580 



i m 578 

 lm545 

 l m 550 



l m 330 

 1^ 455 

 lm 390 

 l m 525 



l m 461 

 1*517 



lm467 



lm 537 



-According to those figures, the mean height in those different 

 tribes would be l m 507. thus exceeding by m 094 the stature of 

 the Aetas and by m 091 that of the Mincopies. 



But we must take into consideration the influence of intermixture. 

 One of the photographs, for which I am indebted to M. J. E. 

 de la. Croix. ( 2 ) is most instructive in that point of view. It 

 represents, at full length, seven Sakais. Three of them have 

 smooth hair, the others have it more or less woolly ; but these are 

 much shorter than the former, the difference between extremes 

 being about one tenth. It shows us that', in this tribe, the 

 original negro type has been altered by mixture with a much 

 taller ethnical element. 



This fact, which can be ascertained at a glance, explains the 

 difference, found by MM. Marche and Monta^o, between the max- 

 imum and minimum height of the aforesaid tribes and of the Man- 

 thras. This difference is m 213 for the former, and O m 250 for the 

 latter. Nothing of the kind exists with regard to the Aetas and the 

 Mincopies who have remained, unmixed or very nearly so. With them 

 the variation only reaches m 118, m 150 and m 154, according 

 to actual measures taken on the body. 



In fact, in all these tribes, whether insular or continental, the 

 minima approach very near to each other, and it is among the 

 Manthras that the smallest size has been met with. Between 

 them and the Aetas measured by the French travellers, and also 

 Brander's Mincopies, the difference is only 24, 95 and 78 millimetres. 



(!) Iii this table, I have put tog-ether the measurements taken on both sexes, 

 Since this was written M. AEontano has published another table in which 

 the height of men and women is shown separately for the Manthras and 

 Knabouis. He measured one woman only among the Udais and none among 

 Jakouns. (Revue (V Ethnographic, vol. I, pp. 42 and 43). 



( 2 ) The two photographs, handed to me by this traveller, were taken by his 

 companion M. de Saint Pol-Lias 



