veddanegrito

Very interesting this conversation about ethnical relationships between India and Australia. I'm concerned a lot with the question of an australoid peopling all over India and SE Asia. In these last times i've got an idea: to make a document (something like a synoptical table) that could contain on a side images showing australian aboriginals and on the other side showing veddoid and negrito tribals of Asia. This would allow us a faster and better comparison between them (as far as morphological features are concerned). So far i've collected some pictures about indigenous peoples in S and SE Asia (please visit sferrarini I would be glad to gather many more, as much as possible, but it isn't always easy. I'm wondering if among you who go across this forum, there is someone who has had the opportunity to gather a large amount of ethnographical images (both old and recent), or could indicate me a good online database (museums or libraries in India and anywhere for example) in which are stored these very interesting documents. I believe it would be very intriguing for example to show one next an other an australian aboriginal, a Paniya from Kerala, a Yanadi from Andhra Pradesh, a Munda from Orissa, a Sakai from Malaya, a Veddah from Ceylon or a Toala from Sulawesi. I could give many other examples. I'm wondering also if you have never found such ethnographical works by Anantha Krishna Iyer as: - "The Cochin Tribes and Castes" (1909-1912) - "The Travancore Tribes and Castes" (1937) - "The Mysore Tribes and Castes" (1928-1935) If someone is interested, i would be glad to forward by email attachment (232 kb) an old ethnographical paper related to the Porr tribe of western Cambodia. This paper was issued in 1905 on the review "Journal of the Siam Society" and covers several sides of this population: everyday life, religious beliefs, physical features, environment where they lived, economic resources, language spoken (also a small Porr vocabulary). The author, Dr. Jean Brengues (physician of french colonial administration) talks about some negrito features among them. Please contact me at sferrarini@hotmail.com Thank you very much for your attention and my best regards. Stefano Ferrarini - Italy