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Title: The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon

Author: David P. Barrows

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Language: English

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THE NEGRITO AND ALLIED TYPES IN THE PHILIPPINES

By David P. Barrows

[Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 12, No. 3,
July-Sept., 1910.]

Nine years of residence and travel in the Philippines have produced
the conviction that in discussions of the ethnology of Malaysia,
and particularly of the Philippines, the Negrito element has been
slighted. Much has been made of the "Indonesian" theory and far too
much of pre-Spanish Chinese influence, but the result to the physical
types found in the Philippines of the constant absorption of the
Negrito race into the Malayan and the wide prevalence of Negrito
blood in all classes of islanders has been generally overlooked.

The object of this paper is to present some physical measurements of
the Negrito and then of several other pagan peoples of the islands
whose types, as determined by measurement and observation, reveal
the presence of Negrito blood.

The physical measurements here given were taken by me at various times
between 1901 and 1909. They were taken according to the methods of
Topinard (Elements d'Anthropologie Generale) and are discussed in
accordance with his system of nomenclature.

The first Negritos measured are members of a little community on the
south slope of Mount Mariveles in the province of Bataan. They are of
a markedly pure type. While it is usual to find Negrito communities
considerably affected by Malayan blood, in this case I doubt if there
is more than a single individual who is not of pure Negrito race. Nine
men and ten women, all adults, practically the entire grown population
of this group, were measured. Although this is a small number, the
surprising unifor