pygmies

Mabuti is a pygmy who lives in the forest with his family and friends. Determined to stop them from teasing him about his singing, Mabuti practices singing to the forest animals and manages to tease his friends in return.

The author tells of his discovery of a new species of human located in Flores, Indonesia.

When twelve-year-old Harry comes from Kansas to visit the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, he befriends an African pygmy who is part of an anthropology exhibit, works for the first female news photographer, and becomes involved in a burgeoning scientific controversy.

Archaeologists examine a humanlike skeleton excavated from a cave on Flores Island in Indonesia that turned out to be an adult woman of extremely small stature,and studies evidence to the discovery of a race of small humans 12,000 years ago.