42 PEOPLES OF THE PHILIPPINES 
individuals, perhaps in the main old women, as have 
the power of becoming possessed by spirits. 
Brown Peoples. Apart from the Negritos all the 
peoples of the Philippines seem at first sight to be re- 
markably similar in their bodily type. They are a 
brown-skinned, straight-haired race with scant beards 
and smooth skins, somewhat under the average of 
human height, and with distinctly slender and graceful 
frames moulded about delicate bones, presenting 
nothing at all suggestive of Negroid traits and about as 
little of anything Caucasian. They have usually been 
reckoned, together with the other inhabitants of the 
East Indies, as a branch of the third great division of 
mankind, the yellow or Mongoloid race. This does not 
mean that they are to be identified with the people 
whom we are unconsciously wont to recognize as most 
representative of the Mongoloids, namely, the Chinese. 
The Chinese are Mongolians in the narrow sense, as 
contrasted with the Mongoloids who embrace all the 
nations of Eastern Asia and aboriginal America and 
many of those of Oceania. In fact, there can be little 
doubt that the Chinese are a particular specialization of 
the generalized Mongoloid stem, as indeed might be 
expected from a people so great and so long civilized. 
Thus, the slant or Mongolian eye is characteristic of 
them and some of their nearer neighbors; but the 
absence of this particular feature among most of the 
American Indians and Oceanic peoples, is no bar to the 
classification of these people as Mongoloids on a basis 
of more numerous other traits. 
Indonesians and Malayans. Closer examina- 
tion, however, reveals that two varieties of the Oceanic 
Mongoloid subrace prevail in many parts of the East 
Indies. This is true in Java, in Borneo, and elsewhere, 
including the Philippines. The more numerous type, 
