CULT OF THE SKULL.
ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH ? URGED. ,| By Cable—Press Association—Copyright*' ' Received 9, 8.45 p.m. ' ■' Jj Sydney, December 9. *i Doctor Hadilcn, ethnologist of thai 'j* University of Cambridge, has returned ""?i from a visit to Papufl, spent mostly la] 7 1 cannibal country. He strongly urges the immediate appointment of an ethiHH' ' .'t logist in Papua, because the natives' are .A changing rapidly and it will soon be tod t late to perform highly important etbiMM ?' logical work that is pcrformable now< \ This is more important to science thanl ' Antarctic research. He discovered' the? .' cult of the ' skull, houses containing shelves of skulls of people killed in war. I were grotesquely decorated.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 10 December 1914, Page 4
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112CULT OF THE SKULL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 10 December 1914, Page 4
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