INTO. THE WILDS ALONE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 12 (Supplement)

INTO. THE WILDS ALONE.

INTHEPID WOMAN EXPLORER. STUDIED CANNIBALS IN SITU. Frau Gulla Pfeffer, who says she is the only white woman who has ventured among tribes of South Africa, started recently on another expedition into the Dark Continent. This time she is headed for the country where Sudanese, nomads live, and where she says no white woman, in fact, no European, has ever intruded. Frau Pfefier left Rotterdam on the small steamer Irmgard, which, after calling at numerous ports, would, land the adventurous German woman on the Gold Coast in six weeks. She is accompanied by a movie operator who, however, will not go with her into the interior. "It is 'high time I explored *his region," says Frau Pfeffer, whose trip is sponsored by the International Institute of African Languages and Culture of London. "Soon modern civilisation will; invade this section of the world and it will no longer be possible to obtain first-hand knowledge of how these nomad tribes, untouched by Western culture, really live"l expect to live with them, be one of them and.be assigned to ! one of their tents." At the end of two years Frau Pfeffer expects to bring out of Africa implements and articles of daily use, works of nomad art, primitive jewellery and musical instruments, as well as other curios, from tribes never before visited 'by scientific explorers. "My previous trip to Nigeria netted priceless examples of cannibal handicraft which are becoming more and more scarce as modern machine-made products penetrate even 'thes,e remote corners of the world," said,the explorer.