STUDY OF HEADHUNTERS
(Spocial Correspondelil .)
LONDON, July 13. A jnurney lo sludy lieadhunters and reinoie hill tribes in Ihe jurigles oi' Biinna uns begun Ihis week by Dr. R. E. Pori uiio, of Welli ngt.on, when he iel'l Boole airfield by ti B.O.A.C. tlyingboat lo tiike uj) his new appoinlnient. as ollicial anthropologist Lo Ihe. Clovernnient of Burma. Dr. Eortinie, who has been engagod in anthropological work I'or tlie past 20 years, intends lo carry out a comjilete survny of headhunting and hill tribes, a n (1 will advise Ihe Burmese (lovernmeiit of measiues ti) inqirove tlie living slaiula rds of these backward peoplcs. Dr. Fortune has alreadv carried out siinilai' sui'veys in ('hina and New Guiiica.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1946, Page 5
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