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Show Pygmies Are Nomads by Nature; Low Mentality In the summer of 1934 a scientist found 30 well-developed primate skulls in the Beartooth mountains, a range of the Rockies in Montana. He estimated that these primates from which man descended, lived from 156 to 175 millions of years ago, and that the age of this mummy was approximately 3,000,000 years. Relics and stories of these manni-kins manni-kins are to be found in all countries. coun-tries. They are nomads by nature, wandering from place to place, supporting sup-porting life by hunting. Pygmies have apparently no family ties of 1 affection such as those of mother to so or sister to brother, and seem to je wanting in all social qualities. The low state of their mental development devel-opment is shown by their disregard for time, nor have they any records or traditions of the past. No religion is known among them, nor have they any fetish rights. They are the closest clos-est link with the original "Darwinian "Darwin-ian Anthropoid ape" extant. The men wear a plain strip of cloth around the loins and the women wom-en simply a bunch of leaves. They have no ornaments of any kind, which shows their low development. They have no music or musical instruments. in-struments. Their only dancing consists con-sists of strutting around in a circle to the tapping of a bow with an arrow. ar-row. Where a Pygmy dies, he is buried and forgotten. |