Evening star., 1921-07-03
Strange Peoples Pictured
In the National Museum

make up the picture. The women
wear garlands of flowers around
their necks. and the remainder of
their clothing. though very scanty'
ions. is sufficient. One Of the girls
is represented as straining kava.
which is said to be pleasant drink
to the Samoans. One woman is
another woman is decorating the
cloth by painting figures on it. A
man, armed with spear having
many barbs on the spearhead. looks
on, as though considerably interested
in the operations of the household.
but not sufficiently interested to take
hand in the proceedings These
people expose a large area of their
brown bodies.
A family of the Dyaks of Borneo
lustrates some of the ways OF living
Of these people. The descriptive card
says that the people live along the
rivers in the interior Of Borneo, "in
the midst of heavy tropical forest"
The card relates that they are expert
house and boat builders. that they
are skilled in the use of the blow
gun. that they are warlike and that
they are still to some extent head
hunters. Their weapons are spears,
short swords and blowguns that send
forth poison-tipped darts. and. al
though they do use bows and arrows.
this practice is rare. The members
of this family are not overdressed,
and in the matter Of raiment seem
to follow a very economical style.
The family is on the porch OF the
communal house engaged in various
occupations. all unconscious Of the
spectators. A woman pounds rice in
big wooden mortar and another
woman is bringing in rice in bas
ket which she carries on her back
aided by strap across the forehead.
A man armed with a blowgun. Is
bringing in from the forest a red
monkey which he has killed for din
ner or supper and two children are
dies" which is said to be a familiar
amusement in that part of the world.
A PHILIPPINE family group is rep
\ resented. and in the group are
three women. One of them is GIN
ming cotton, one is spinning and one
is weaving cloth. A man stands by
with a long plant pole across his
shoulders, and from each end OF the
pole hangs basket of fruit, many of
the fruits of the Philippines being
counterfeited in the baskets. A pretty
little girl seems to be asking the
frutero for contribution from his
load.
Then. there is household OF
Igorot people. A fire is on the ground
and one Of the three women present
is peeling sweet potatoes. In looking
at the group and their general living
arrangements one is apt to wonder
why these people are SO particular
as to peel the potatoes and then to
cook them. One woman is shown
working at pottery and is just put
ting the finishing touches on big
earthen jar. Not far away In another
big glass case, about as large as the
show window of the average store.
lives a family of Negritos, very small
but symmetrical people. They are
coal black and dusky. One OF the
group is very young baby. which its
mother holds and without doubt she
is as proud of the baby as any other
mother is Of her own particular
nre with friction by rubbing togeth-
er two strips of bamboo. saving the
convex surface of one piece with the
edge of the other. A man bearing
long bow and quiver of arrows
comes in bringing dead game COCK.
You will also probably stop to look
at a Papuan mana jet-black man
representing the native inhabitants
of New Guinea and the Fiji Islands.
Nearby is a Veddah woman. small in
stature and coal black. The introduc-
tion which one gets to her from tne
descriptive card is that she Is one or
the true akorigines of Ceylon and that
she belongs to one OF the primitive
types OF the human race. The carh
says that they subsist on whatever
the jungle affords. live in thatched
huts and that the men are expert
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