Anthropological notes on Bantu natives from Portuguese East Africa / by G.D. Maynard and G.A. Turner.

  • Maynard, George Darell, 1876-1923.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Anthropological notes on Bantu natives from Portuguese East Africa / by G.D. Maynard and G.A. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES ON BANTU NATIVES FROM PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. By G. D. MAYNARD, F.R.C.S.E., AND G. A. TURNER, M.B., B.Ch. Aberdeen, D.P.H. As we have had the opportunity of making a comparatively large number of anthropological records on certain Portuguese East African Natives, who had been recruited for work on the Gold, Diamond, and Coal Mines of the Transvaal, we thought it might be of interest to publish them, together with a few brief notes on the tribes concerned. The measurements were made on natives who had died before actually commencing work, as well as on those dying after having worked for periods of varying lengths. Both classes include natives who had come to the mines for the first time and also natives v^ho may have been on the Rand on previous occasions. With the exception of a few natives from the British Nyassaland Protectorate, all the oases referred to were recruited in Portuguese East Africa. We are therefore dealing with a mixture of Bantu tribes, scattered over large tropical and sub-tropical areas. The attached map shows the various districts in which recruiting operations for the Trans^'aal mines have been carried on, and it will be noticed that the tropical and sub-tropical areas are divided by a well defined and substantial “ buffer ” district, namely, the Mozambique Company’s tei’ritory. The whole area is bounded ;—on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Rovuma River and German East Africa, on the south by Zululand, and on the west by Lake Nyassa, the British Nyassaland Protectorate, Rhodesia, the Transvaal, and Swaziland. Owing to the enormous extent covered by recruiting operations, and the varying character of the, country, our records include natives