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so as to be well seen, the foot is small, high and arched, and the 

 heel by no means projects backwards. ( x ) 



M. Montano's photographs show, with regard to Aetas, very 

 nearly similar characteristics for the upper part of the body. The 

 shoulders and chest are wide, the pectoral muscles well developed, 

 the arms are fleshy and without too great a projection of the mus- 

 cles. But the waist is noticeable and rather small in a certain num- 

 ber of men and women. The lower limbs, in both sexes, with the 

 exception of two or three women, are less developed than the up- 

 per ones, and are at times really slender. Owing to this, and also to 

 the posture they assume in the photograph, the feet of a certain num- 

 ber of them appear bigger and wider than those of the Mincopies. 

 It is quite different with regard to the Sakais, especially those whose 

 hair proves them to be true Negritos. Their lower limbs are quite 

 as well developed as the upper ones ; one of them, in particular, is re- 

 markable for the size of his legs and arms, and yet the outline of 

 his body has lost nothing of its roundness. With all of them the 

 calf is placed where it ought to be, according to our European no- 

 tions, and the feet are like those of the Mincopies ; at all events 

 the heel does not protrude in any exaggerated degree. 



In reality, the only characteristics in which the Mincopies agree 

 with the African negro are their hair and complexion. In all my 

 photographs, the head is entirely shaved, but the unanimous tes- 

 timony of travellers leave no doubt as to the woolly appearance 

 of the hair. Ffytche, Motjat, &c. add that the hair seems to grow 

 in tufts and forms these peculiar gromerules so often noticed by 

 travellers with regard to certain Papuans. M. G-iglioli has veri- 

 fied, in two photographs, the accuracy of this information. ( 2 ) 

 The portraits of a few Aetas and Sakais show the same characteris- 

 tic. It follows that half-breeds have, according to the degree of 

 intermixture, wavy, curly, or frizzled hair, entirely different from 



( i ) Colonel Ffytche had already insisted on that point as a mark of distinc- 

 tion between the Andamanese and the African Negrito. On certain Aborigines 

 of the Andaman Islands. {Transactions of the Ethnological Society, new series, 

 vol. V, p. 40.) 



(2) Studi sulla Bazza Negrita, p. 309. 



