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The Negritos are dark brown — rarely black — 
of short stature and have closely curled hair. The 
lips are sometimes everted and their facial and 
cranial characteristics are rightly described as 
** childish.” The skull tends to be rounded rather 
than long. They are naturally, it is to be presumed, 
forest nomads, subsisting by hunting and searching 
for fruits and vegetables, mostly tubers, in the 
jungle. 
Their culture is primitive and their encamp- 
ments consist merely of wind-breaks of palm-leaves. 
These small shelters are often separate, but fre- 
quently arranged in an oval, while in some cases 
a rude domed hut, shaped something like a beehive, 
is constructed, which consists essentially of two 
shelters facing each other. Small huts on posts 
are sometimes erected, and occasionally tree-huts 
are to be found. The former type of structure is, 
no doubt, copied from the Malays, or from the 
higher-type “ aborigines ” with whom they are in 
contact. Each shelter contains a rude sleeping 
bench of bamboo and close against this is built a 
fire, which is kept burning at night to warm the 
inhabitants. Household implements are few and 
rice, when obtained, is cooked in large joints of 
bamboo, if the people possess no Malay or Chinese- 
made cooking pots. 
Male dress consists only of a T-bandage, gener- 
ally of European-made cloth. The Negrito women 
of the west coast groups wear curious little skirts 
of the rhizomorph of a fungus, or of shredded bark. 
Necklaces of monkey teeth are to be seen, while 
bamboo combs, decorated with incised patterns, are 
worn in the tuft of hair at the back of the head, 
the only part which is left unshaven. The men 
usually cut the hair short and do not, unless on 
