Anthropos: Anthropos, 32.1937

Anthropos, 32.1937

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

Persistent identifier:: BV041701500

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Other Titles:: Anthropos

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-709549

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-709549

Persistent identifier:: DE-11-001871392

Title:: Anthropos, 32.1937

Year of Publication:: 1937

Call Number:: LA 1118-32

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 32, 1937, Heft 5, 6

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: Negritos of Eastern Luzon

Other person:: Vanoverbergh, Morice

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhi Negritos of Eastern Luzon. 927 Most of the Negrito women I met in the district of Casiguran were very skillful in catching crabs, and they were real experts in locating bird’s eggs, especially the very large eggs of a comparatively small bird that buries its eggs deep in the sand of the beach. At the time of my visit to the Negritos of Dinipan (Cas.), I saw men, women and children roam around the beach, at low tide, and collect squids. 3. T i 11 i n g the Soil. On this expedition, wherever I met Negritos, I could observe that the practice of tilling the soil seemed to be very much on the increase. Most of the Pygmies who live in the southern part of the district of Casiguran, have their own small homesteads, especially at Dilalongan, at Loba and at Simbahan; which, however, does not prescind from the fact that their chief pursuits con tinue to be hunting and fishing. They plant sweet potatoes, maize, bananas and a certain amount of sugar cane; also, to some extent, rice, tomatoes, taro, beans, manioc, papaws and several kinds of squashes and other Cucurbitaceae. In the northern part of the district and at Baler, agriculture was less prominent. In Cagayan, the Negritos I met seemed to be mere tenants of the Christian Malays. In the mountains of eastern Rizal, they were tilling their own fields. In both last-mentioned places, hunting and fishing were forcibly thrown more or less into the background on account of the lack of forests and of fairly deep watercourses. In this respect, however, all Negritos are very fickle. When I visited Loba (Cas.), Tomay and his wife had emigrated to another province, leaving their tilled fields to the care of their children. At Baler, it was told me by Rev. John RapinAn, who had been a parish priest on the island of Polillo, that in the latter place, the Negritos cultivated the soil, but abandoned their fields for the smallest reason, even when the crops were nearing maturity. Government officials do their utmost to introduce agriculture among the Pygmies, but this seems to be a very ungrateful job, and the results are far from satisfactory. 4. Various Crafts. Negritos who live along the beach, in the district of Casiguran, know how to extract salt from the sea. First, they gather a large quantity of fuel somewhere on the beach, then they heap up a considerable part of it and set it ablaze; as soon as the fire can stand it, they throw a certain amount of sea water into it; after which they add fresh fuel and repeat the performance several times in succession, until all the fuel is consumed. They finish by gathering the clumps of salt that have agglomerated among the ashes. Lime for chewing betel is manufactured by the women. The process is very simple: the women merely gather mussel shells and toast them over the fire. c

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