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Achum Aeta akou Aligua aman akang Anchi asak asanem balei bamboo Bataan Bataks bejuco Benguet Bolinao brother's ceremony chanum chua chua'n dance daughter's daughter's dima distribution of Negritos Ethnological Survey father female Filipinos girl Guara hair horse husband Ibaloi Ibaloi Igorot Igorot Ilokano Inan inhabitants Islands itan John kabadyo kabuasan kachiman Kaime kame kayo killed kinálbig kita Kuan Luzon Malay Malayan male mamunu Manila MIXED BLOOD mother mountain Na-ka aman NABALOI DIALECT Nabaloi English Nabaloi NEGRITOS OF ZAMBALES Ngaramto niman nuntan Pampanga pamunu Pangasinan panguduan particles person plural person singular Philippines Photo by Diamond Photo by Worcester PLATE pronoun Province pulo pure blood rancheria rice Rizal Province root san-sis-kei sawal saxei Second person Sepai sister's Spanish sun Kaime sun sikara sun sikáto suta taddo Tagalog Tagbanua Tarlac tayo tense Third person towns tribes verbal forms village women words Zambales Province
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Page 36 - The color of the skin is a dark chocolate brown rather than black, and on unexposed portions of the body approaches a yellowish tint of the Malayan. The loathsome skin disease common in the northern region of Luzon gives it a mottled appearance. The Aeta have practically no prognathism. The hands are not large, but the feet are larger in proportion to the size of the body than those of Filipinos. The toes are spreading, and the large toe frequently extends inward so much as to attract attention,...
Page 60 - ... unsheathed bolo over his head, and in a frenzy jumped over the fire, passed through the human arch, and with a final yell threw his arms around his wife in a long embrace. The ceremony as above described contains many details which I did not meet with in Zambales, but the main feature,, the sitting down of the bride to receive her gifts, is the same. POLYGAMY AND DIVORCE As might be expected among the Negritos, a man may marry as many wives as he can buy. His inability to provide the necessary...
Page 30 - Cabangan, holds on its broad slopes the largest part of the Negritos of Zambales. Many tiny streams have their sources in this mountain and rush down the slopes, growing in volume and furnishing water supply to the Negrito villages situated along their banks. Some of the larger of these streams have made deep cuts on the lower reaches of the mountain slopes, but they are generally too small to have great powers of erosion. The unwooded portions of the table-lands are covered with cogon and similar...
Page 13 - DISTRIBUTION OF NEGRITOS Probably no group of primitive men has attracted more attention from the civilized world than the pygmy blacks. From the time of Homer and Aristotle the pygmies, although their existence was not absolutely known at that early period, have had their place in fable and legend, and as civilized man has become more and more acquainted with the unknown parts of the globe he has met again and again with the same strange type of the human species until he has been led to conclude...
Page 40 - Maize is roasted on hot coals. Everything is eaten without salt, although the Negritos like salt and are very glad to get it. It has already been noted that the Negrito has a hard time to get enough to eat, and for that reason there is scarcely anything in the animal or vegetable kingdom of his environment of which he does not make use. He never has more than two meals a day, sometimes only one, and he will often start early in the morning on a deer hunt without having eaten any food and will hunt...
Page 65 - Of course this only strengthened the belief. There is nothing unusual about the shape of the stone. It is merely a large, round bowlder. Disease is usually considered a punishment for wrongdoing, the more serious diseases coming from the supreme anito, the lesser ones from the lesser anitos. If smallpox visits a rancheria it is because someone has cut down a tree or killed an animal belonging to a spirit which has invoked the aid of the supreme spirit in inflicting a more severe punishment than it...
Page 65 - O'Donnell (Tarlac Province) and Botolan (Zambales Province) there is a huge black bowlder which the Negritos believe to be the home of one powerful spirit. So far as I could learn, the belief is that the spirits of all who die enter this one spirit or "anito" who has its abiding place in this rock. However that may be, no Negrito, and in fact no Christianized native of Zambales or Tarlac, ever passes this rock without leaving a banana, camote, or some other article of food. If they do, bad luck or...
Page 41 - He never takes a bath, because ho thinks that if he bathes often he is more susceptible to cold, that a covering of dirt serves as clothing, although he frequently gets wet either in the rain or when fishing or crossing streams. This is probably one reason why skin diseases are so common. .AGRICULTURE The Negrito can not by any stretch of imagination be called a worker. His life for generations has not been such as to teach habits of industry. But for the fact that he has to do some work or starve,...
Page 34 - Aeta nose may be described as broad, flat, bridgeless, with prominent arched alas almost as high, as the central cartilage of the nose and with the nostrils invariably visible from the front. The nasal index obtained by dividing the nasal breadth by the height from the root of the nose to the septum and multiplying the quotient by 100 serves to indicate the group to which the individual belongs. Thus it will be seen that races with a nasal index of more than 100 have a nose wider than it is long....
Page 55 - Guijo;" a monkey may be playing in the tree and the child will be named "Barac" (monkey) ; or if the birth was during a heavy rain the child may be called "Layos" (flood). Usually the most striking object near at hand is selected. Like most primitive peoples, the Negritos use only one name. If the child is sickly or cries very much, the name is changed, because the Negritos believe that the spirit inhabiting the place where the child was born is displeased at the choice of the name and takes this...