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Did you know there were native pygmies in Australia ?

posted a year ago by Quasimodo (16388)

Here is a photo of a couple of them from 1957 in Northern Queensland:
https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Pygmies-1.jpg

Here is the article about it:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/12/the-enigma-of-the-australian-pygmies/

Here is another photo of a group of pygmies from the same area from around 1890:
https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Pygmies-3.jpg

And is it just me or do some of the 1890 group look quite similar to the Andaman Islanders below who are also pygmies ?
https://mcmscache.epapr.in/post_images/website_350/post_15672030/thumb.jpg

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