The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912

Chapter XXIII

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"Non-Christian" Worcester 571-586

Professor Worcester, the P. T. Barnum of the "non-Christian tribe" industry, and his menagerie of certain rare and interesting wild tribes still extant in the Islands, specimens of which you saw at the St. Louis Exposition of 1903-4; by which device the American people have been led to believe the Igorrotes, Negritos, etc., to be samples of the Filipino people.