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The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere

Adolf Bernhard Meyer

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...as early as the 6th or 7th Century. "Everyone who carefully and accurately notices their physical demeanour and their moral and intellectual peculiarities is struck by the fact that the Sekahs are not Malays s. s. Against this speaks not only the fact that their language is entirely different, but also the occurrence of hairy, frizzle-haired men and women, true Papuan types." Riedel seemed at that time inclined to believe (p. 266)--although he spoke entirely under reservation--that there was a certain original connection between the Sekahs of Biliton and the Badjos of Celebes, and that the Sekahs were related to the Papuans or other of the neighbouring tribes of the Eastern part of Celebes, or might have to some extent intermarried with them. Lately however lie has expressed himself on the subject in a letter addressed to me as follows: "More thorough investigations have shown me a different result. The Sekahs are not Malays in the more restricted sense of the word, but neither are they Papuans. It is true that persons with to a certain extent frizzled hair are found amongst them, but such hair has not that crispness peculiar to the Papuans; it is not straight, but it has not the Papuan characteristics; neither does it resemble the hair of cross-breeds between Papuans and Ceramese, Keis, Bugis, Chinese and others, as I had the opportunity of observing later on. The Badjos have straight and curly, but not frizzly hair." Compare also Waitz-Gerland: "Anthr." 1865, V, 1, pages 19, 21 and 22; "Ardr. Woordenb. Ned. Ind." 1869, III, p. 273; and de Hollander: "Handl." 4th ed. 1882, I, pages 807 and 835. The linguistic fragments given by Riedel (I. c.) belong to a Malayan dialect, as Prof. Kern of...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. To get started finding The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 116

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Publisher: Dresden: Stengel & Co.

Release: 1899

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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...as early as the 6th or 7th Century. "Everyone who carefully and accurately notices their physical demeanour and their moral and intellectual peculiarities is struck by the fact that the Sekahs are not Malays s. s. Against this speaks not only the fact that their language is entirely different, but also the occurrence of hairy, frizzle-haired men and women, true Papuan types." Riedel seemed at that time inclined to believe (p. 266)--although he spoke entirely under reservation--that there was a certain original connection between the Sekahs of Biliton and the Badjos of Celebes, and that the Sekahs were related to the Papuans or other of the neighbouring tribes of the Eastern part of Celebes, or might have to some extent intermarried with them. Lately however lie has expressed himself on the subject in a letter addressed to me as follows: "More thorough investigations have shown me a different result. The Sekahs are not Malays in the more restricted sense of the word, but neither are they Papuans. It is true that persons with to a certain extent frizzled hair are found amongst them, but such hair has not that crispness peculiar to the Papuans; it is not straight, but it has not the Papuan characteristics; neither does it resemble the hair of cross-breeds between Papuans and Ceramese, Keis, Bugis, Chinese and others, as I had the opportunity of observing later on. The Badjos have straight and curly, but not frizzly hair." Compare also Waitz-Gerland: "Anthr." 1865, V, 1, pages 19, 21 and 22; "Ardr. Woordenb. Ned. Ind." 1869, III, p. 273; and de Hollander: "Handl." 4th ed. 1882, I, pages 807 and 835. The linguistic fragments given by Riedel (I. c.) belong to a Malayan dialect, as Prof. Kern of...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. To get started finding The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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