NATIVE CUSTOMS
GIRLS KEPT IN BASKETS, PROBLEM IN NEW GUINEA. The curious custom of natives of Tanga, New Guinea, of incarcerating young girls in wickerwork cages within darkened huts for a period of 12 months or more, is one of the interesting problems which Mr Frank Bel], a master of arts in anthropology at Sydney University, proposes to investi. I gate shortly. The native girls, it has been suggested, consider the conffnement not as a punishment but as a privilege. Air Bell, who is the assistant librarian c f the Sydney Municipal Library, will leave this month for New Guinea, on a seven months’ anthropological investigation of the natives of Tanga, a group of islands off the north-east coast of New Ireland, man- ■ dated territory of New Guinea. His investigations, which are being made for the Australian National Research Council, will include a study of the social organisation, economic life, general conditions, system of government, magico-rcligious system, and recreation of the inhabitants.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1933, Page 7
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162NATIVE CUSTOMS Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1933, Page 7
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