Negritos

Period


They came across land bridges from mainland Asia about 25,000 years ago.

Event

People


These people are generally considered to be the aborigines of the Philippines, and
perhaps at one time inhabited the entire group. They are a race of negroid dwarfs
of a sooty black colour, with wooly hair, which they wear short, strong jaws, thick
lips, and broad flat noses.


The men were about 4 feet 8 inches in height, and the women about a couple of
inches shorter.

Activities


The men clear the land, the men and women together do the planting, and the women
alone the reaping.


Their arms are bows and arrows, and the only education of the young is in archery,
which is taught to them by their mothers from their earliest infancy.

Culture

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