STONE AGE PEOPLE
ADAM WITH ARROWS, by Colin Simpson; Angus and Robertson Ltd., Australian price 25/(COLIN SIMPSON’S excursions with Australian officers whose work lies in exploring ’and pacifying the remote parts of the trusteeship territory of New Guinea have given him unique opportunities for observing the culture of tribes still in the stone age. Solid ethnological work in this field has been done by Miss Beatrice Blackwood, of the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) who, in 1936, lived for some months with the Kukukuku tribe, then only a few years removed from cannibalism. Mr. Simpson draws on this material where necessary. His own book does not pretend to be research, but is a tale well told of what he heard and saw since 1949, It is written both with insight into the nature of the native problem, and with understanding of the size of the task Australia has undertaken. Ten fine colourplates, numerous photographs, and sufficient sketch maps ‘add greatly to the interest and value of the book.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 14
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169STONE AGE PEOPLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 14
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