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a bow;
hog-bristle ornaments on the legs. 58 XLV. Negrito man of Negros
(emigrant from Panay) drawing a bow. 58 XLVI. Musical instruments
used by Negritos of Zambales. 58 XLVII. Negritos of Zambales
singing the "talbun." 58 XLVIII. Negritos of Zambales dancing. 58
XLIX. Negrito men of Bataan beating gongs and dancing. 58 L.
Negritos of Zambales dancing the "torture dance." 58 LI. Negrito
woman and daughter, Bataan. 72 LII. Pure Negrito woman and mixed
blood, with babies, Zambales. 72 LIII. Negrito women and children,
Zambales. 72 LIV. Negrito children, Santa Fé, Zambales. 72 LV.
Capitán of Cabayan, Zambales, with Negrito and Zambal wives. 72
LVI. Boys of Zambales, showing scars made by blistering for fevers,
etc. 72 LVII. Negrito woman of Zambales, pure blood, showing scars
made by blistering for fevers, etc. 72 LVIII. Negrito woman of
Zambales, pure blood, showing skin disease. 72 LIX. Negrito man of
Zambales, mixed blood, showing skin disease. 72 LX. Negrito boy of
Zambales, mixed blood, showing skin disease. 72 LXI. Negrito man of
Zambales, mixed blood, showing skin disease. 72 LXII.
Capitán-General del Monte, Negrito of Zambales. 72
Figure 1. "Belatic," trap used by Negritos. 45 Figure 2. Marks on dice

used by Negritos. 49

PREFACE
This report is based on two months' field work pursued during May and
June, 1903. Accompanied by Mr. J. Diamond, a photographer, the
writer went in the latter part of April to Iba, Zambales, where a few
days were spent in investigating the dialects of the Zambal people and
in preparation for a trip to the interior.
After a journey of 25 miles inland a camp was established near Tagiltil.
During the three weeks we were there the camp was visited by about
700 Negritos, who came in from outlying settlements, often far back in
the mountains; but, owing to the fact that most of them would remain
only as long as they were fed, extended investigations had to be
conducted largely among the residents of Tagiltil and the neighboring
rancheria of Villar.
From Tagiltil a trip was made southward behind the low mountain
chain, which marks the limit of the plain, and through a hitherto
unexplored territory, very broken and next to impassable except in the
dry season. The trail, known only to Negritos and but little used,
followed for the most part the beds of mountain streams. Four little
rancherias were passed, the people of two of which had already visited
us. A hard two-day trip brought us to Santa Fé, a barrio of San
Marcelino. After a week with the Negritos at this place a trip was made
toward the Pampanga boundary to Cabayan and Aglao, the former
locality inhabited by several small groups of Negritos, the latter an
isolated Ilokano barrio in and near which the Negritos live. A visit to
the rancherias near Subig and Olongapo concluded the investigation. In
all, more than a thousand Negritos were seen.
With only a short time at a place it is evident that an exhaustive study
of the people of any particular locality could not be made. But the
culture plane of the entire area is practically the same, and the facts as
here presented should give a good idea of the customs and the general

condition of the Negritos of Zambales Province. The short time at my
disposal for the investigation is my only excuse for the meager
treatment given some lines of study--as, for example, physical
anthropology and language.
Inasmuch as nothing has yet been published by The Ethnological
Survey on the Negritos of the Philippines, I have thought it not out of
place to preface my report with an introductory chapter on their
distribution. The data contained therein have been compiled by me
from information gathered by the Survey during the past two years and
are sufficiently authentic for the present purpose.
The photographs of the Zambales Negritos were made by Mr. J.
Diamond and those of the Bataan Negritos are from the collection of
Hon. Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior. Credit for each
photograph is given on the plate as it appears.
CHAPTER I
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 that
there is practically no part of the tropic-zone where these little blacks
have not lived at some time.
Mankind at large is interested in a race