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Title: Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, H. Wilfrid
Subjects: Walker, H. Wilfrid Ethnology
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by far the smallest race of people I had ever seen,and they might qtiite properly be termed pigmies.I certainly never came across a Negrito man overfour feet six inches, if as taU, and the women werea great deal smaller, coming as a rule only up tothe mens shoTilders; the elderly women lookedlike small children with old faces. Both sexesgenerally had their bodies covered with variouspatterns cut in their skins, a kind of tattooing itmight be called, but the skin was very much raised.Many of them had the backs of their heads in thecentre shaved in a curious manner, like a verybroad parting. I did not see them wearing manyornaments, but the men had tight-fitting fibrebracelets on their arms and legs, and the womensometimes wore necklaces of seeds, berries andbeads ; they would also sometimes wear curiouslycarved bamboo combs in their hair. The men usedspears and bows and arrows ; these latter theywere rarely without. Their arrows were oftenworks of art, very fine and neat patterns being
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.^..--iCi^Sl? NEGRITO GIRLS (SHOWING SHAVED HEAD AT BACK). (70 AN INGENIOUS DEVICE 77 burnt on the bamboo shafts. The feathers on theheads were large, and the steel points were veryneatly botind on with rattan. These steel pointswere often cruel-looking things, having manyfishhook-like barbs set at different angles, so thatif they once entered a mans body it would beimpossible to extract them again. A very cleverinvention was an arrow made for shooting deer andpig. The steel point was comparatively small,and it was fitted very lightly to a small pieceof wood, which was also lightly placed in theend of the arrow. Attached at one end to thearrow-head was a long piece of stout native cord,which was wound round the shaft, the other endbeing fastened to the main shaft. When thearrow was shot into a pig, for instance, the steelhead soon fell apart from the small bit of wood,which in its turn would also drop off from themain shaft. The thick cord would then graduallybecome unwoiuid, and toge

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