Gunnison Valley News | 1919-08-22 | Page 4 | Pigmies are Suspected to be More Ancient than Any other Race on Globe

Pigmies Are Suspected to Be More Ancient Than Any Other Race on Globe A most interesting puzzle to anthropologists anthro-pologists are the pigmies. Apparently of a single racial stock, they are scattered scat-tered over many parts of the world, and nobody gives a plausible guess as to how their distribution was accomplished. accom-plished. Wherever found they seem to be the earliest people veritable aborigines and all of them are much alike physically, phys-ically, though different somewhat in complexion. They are suspected to be more ancient than any other race now surviving on the globe. To this race belong the so-called "monkey men" of the mountainous interior in-terior of India. Likewise the pot-bellied natives of the Andaman islands, in the Bengal gulf, who are said to "look like babies all their life." These latter wear their hair in frizzly tufts and adorn themselves with necklaces made from the bones and teeth of defunct de-funct relatives. In Madagascar are the Behosy, black dwarfs, who when pursued jump from tree to tree like monkeys. They are so timid that sometimes they die of fright when captured.