Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 1: An and B

For some of the photographs of Badagas, Kurumbas, and Todas, I am indebted to Mr. A. T. W. Penn of Ootacamund.

I may add that the anthropometric data are all the result of measurements taken by myself, in order to eliminate the varying error resulting from the employ ment of a plurality of observers.

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