DR. BUCK’S RESEARCHES
TRIP TO SAMOA POLYNESIAN RACE ORIGIN By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright HONOLULU, Thursday. Dr. P. H. Buck, formerly of New Zealand, who is now at the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, engaged on ethnological work, sailed yesterday for Samoa to undertake Polynesian research. Dr. Buck expressed his belief that this race originated in Asia. Many centuries ago, probably in the early Christian era, there lived in South-eastern Asia a people dominantly Caucasian and Mongolian, whom we now call Polynesian, said Dr. Buck. They began a gradual exodus, and there is evidence that they went first to Indonesia, and from there to Samoa, and so gradually to New Zealand. Dr. Buck is accompanied by two other scientists. Their studies will include physical anthropology and research into the material culture and the social organisation and religion and language of the Samoans.—A. and N.Z
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 1
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