Tasaday
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Tasaday, the 9-10 jolly in the fillies' race, managed to get beaten after being allowed a soft lead.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2013
Making contact with the Tasaday, the government agents soon determined that the tribe had been isolated for at least 700 years and perhaps for 2,000, and had no knowledge of agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The existence of the Tasaday, as the tribesmen call themselves, came to light after a trapper named Dafal reported that he had encountered a mysterious people on his hunting trips into the hinterland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the 25 Tasaday the visitors counted, several had medical problems: goiter, hernia, bronchitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Tasaday have survived in their primitive state chiefly by gathering rather than growing food, by utilizing stones as scrapers, choppers and pounders, and by fashioning containers, knives and other implements out of bamboo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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