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Three months ago Douglas MacArthur's Artillery Chief, Major General Edward P. King Jr., cemented a personal friendship of long standing with the Balugas, aboriginal Negrito tribe in central Luzon. In gratitude for rescues of many U.S. pilots after forced landings in the mountains, he cut his arm with a Boy Scout knife, bathed the knife in his blood and presented it to Baluga Chief Tomas...
...save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular of his earth-circling trip last year when he discovered a pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India, Africa and the Philippines; studied towheaded Negroes in Australia; found fossils of a new type of big ape in the Siwalik Hills of Burma; a new place (the Solo Valley) to dig for remains of the Java ape man; two new cave...
...been given by him to the Museum. The collection illustrates the life of the primitive tribes of the islands as well as the so-called Filipinos, who are really a mixed foreign stock, probably of Malay and Chinese origin. The better part of the collection illustrates the former, the Negrito, Igorot and Bagoboo tribes, each being represented by a few specimens, while from the Moros there is a fairly large collection. The articles are utensils of daily life, such as wicker baskets, spears, agricultural implements, and also several small models of houses. The collection will not be on exhibition until...