RESEARCH IN PAPUA
NEW ZEALANDER'S WORK
.Anthropological research among the aboriginals of Papua during the next two years is the aim of Dr. R, Fortune and Mrs. Fortune (Dr. Margaret Mead), who left Wellington by tho Ulimaroa for Sydney yesterday afternoon. Dr. Fortune 'will continue his research work on behalf of the Columbia University Council for Kesearch, and Mrs. Fortune on behalf of tho American Museum of Natural History. A particular study will be made by Dr. Fortune of the religious systems of the natives, while Mrs. Fortuue will devote herself to a study of the native jliildren, the system of education, and family life generally,. A son of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Fortune, of Paraparaumu, Dr. Fortune attended Wellington College, and graduated at Victoria College in arts in 1926. i After a year at Cambridge he carried out anthropological work for the University of Sydney and the Australian National Research Council in 1927-29. He was appointed in 1929 to a University Fellowship at Columbia University (New York), where he completed his Ph.D. The results of hie work among the Omaha tribe of Indians in Nebraska and among the Dobuan tribe of Papua have been published in volumes with the respective titles, "Omaha Secret Societies and "Sorcerers of Dobu." Mrs. Fortune is well known to science in the United States as Dr. Margaret Mead. She has done valuable anthropological research in Samoa, and she accompanied Dr. Fortune to the Admiralty Group in 1028-20. Her publications are "The Coming of Age in Samoa" and "GrowiDg Uis in. New Guinea." |
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 13
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