THE ISLANDS AND THEIR POPULATION 39 
although these buildings are usually smaller and more 
poorly made than among the Filipinos. A Chinese 
account of the thirteenth century quite unmistakably 
tells of the Negrito living in nests high in the branches 
of trees. The tree house is however of universal distri- 
bution among the wilder tribes of the Philippines, so 
that again there is nothing distinctive of the Negrito 
in this practice. 
In a number of localities, the Negrito has taken to 
farming, though never on an intensive scale and usually 
with little care for the growth of rice, the food crop 
which is universally most esteemed in the Philippines 
‘ and requires the 
most attention and 
skill to sueceed with. 
His person he de- 
corates In some cases 
by sharpening his 
teeth to points. This 
is also a widespread 
Filipino practice. 
As the tattooing 
zx yyy iim an which the brown- 
BZ Ley Hh eA NAS skinned Filipino uses 
4, Yi ANN I for ornament would 
eL/ | | not show on _ his 
Fig. 3. Leg Ornament of Boar's Bristles. dark skin, he deco- 
Negrito of Zambales rates himself by 
searifying his trunk 
or limbs so as to produce a series of welts. Girdles, neck- 
laces, and neckbands of braided rattan, boar bristles, 
and the like, are frequently worn; but clothing is 
scarcely a factor wherever the Negrito is left to sole 
intercourse with his own kind. Sometimes he wears a 
clout. The women cover themselves with a little skirt 
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