Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-27
Pigmies Look Best
for First Pictures
american Museum, OF Nat
au'dl History Receives Re-
production Of africa.
BY MADGE ARTHUR.

NEW YORK. July 2G.-Just placed on
view in the Hall of Primates" at tho
American Museum OF Natural History
here; is group which represents a
mics" as their adventurous visitor H
of deepest Africa
This visitor was Herbert Lang. who
LOOK most active part during the
nve years Of the museums Kongo en-
p pehhiIilon No The scene now, offered to
.oEraphs. casts and actual measure
ments taken by him. and if any one
me artist entrusted With With the !" WORK T%'c Of
hi his doubts do would vanish We're he per.
MT as J. have been, to look through
me Two enormous volumes of photo
grams that were taken on the spot.
,he sin"p psiivs or Wild beasts taken in
nesses arc interesting. but just imagine
now many more interesting they would
mysterious power. been able TO induce
them 10 pose for him in their most
characteristic attitudes and wearing
their best smiles scowls
Wou'G. OF course, be entirely wrong
to iiken these strange little dwarfs Of
there can be no possible injustice i'm
retErrins 10 them as wild little ami
mails mails, shy OF the white man as are the
Therefore. looked with amusement
at the multitudes of photographs that
These pigmes are on average a little
more than four feet in height 'Thev
bi,,get in rS color from liEh; Fellow to
small ones OF eighteen or. twenty. to
bands numbering nearly 100. They
have no distinctive language of their
own. but are. nevertheless. quite ac-
conpiished linsuists. often speaking
as many as half dozen OF the various
so On yes Of the tribes with whom they
Are Are, from time 10 time associated. They
!iNs entirely upon the game their bows
and arrows supply, being acquainted
agricultural instruments.
The scene depicted in the museum
shows family, OF six, including a
tie dome-shaped hut with a hole for
door in which they manage to exist.
one OF The photographs l inspected
SHOWS village" of these domcilcs
ihan collection Of leaf-covered dor
Kennels III the midst OF jungle, were
u not that the human inhabitants have
arranged themselves in 4 line in front
Of their residences 10 have their pic
lures taken.
II is perfectly obvious they know
they are facing some sort of an in
St-ument that will enable them after
wards 10 see themselves. and they are
AS plainly endcavoring to look their
best as though they were in fash
unfamiliar with clothes, some of the
women have constructed old ia shioned
panie-s out o! grass and leaves. and by
attaching them where panicrs used TO
ne worn. have managed TO present the
appearance OF roosters
How did YOU ever manage 10 tame
them sufficiently for Photographic nos
ing" | asked Mr.. Lang
II took months of patience and Gift
bearing. he replied. we could To-
cate group in some locality. and.
having learned how TO make our
selves understood in the language Of
would begin friendly overtures 10 the
dwarfs. They are very t!m;d and often
group would migrate before we were
ao!e 20 OBTAIN the data we required
Friendly chiefs OF neighboring tribes
would sometimes assist us. for. al
though pigmy may not purchase ?
wife from the fuli-crown natives, the
a few p!gmy women TO his stock Of
several hundred wives. SO ,ha, bust
ness relations OF SORT may be said