FOR NEW GUINEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 15

FOR NEW GUINEA.

HARVARD SCIENTIST. STUDY OF NATIVES. Second of the Peabody Museum New Guinea Expedition to pass through Auckland this, month. is Dr. D. L.. Oliver, ethnological • research expert frdiii Harvard University, Boston, who arrived by the Mauijganui from Papeete this morning and later transhipped aboard the Niagara for Sydney. He was preceded earlier this month by Dr. William L. M6ss, leader of the expedition, who was a through passenger for Australia by the Monterey on her last southward voyage. . ■>; Dr. Oliver, a Harvard graduate, is accompanied by Mrs. Oliver, who will remain in Australia while her husband proceeds to New Guinea. They sailed from .New York to the Panama Canal, where transferred to a French vessel sailing for , Tahiti. They remained on the island for two months.

Dr. Oliver's co-ethnologist is Dr. GJeorg Holtker, of Vienna. He has yet to go to New Guinea, where it is anticipated a year will be spent studying the customs and characteristics of the natives in the uncontrolled area to the west pf Mount Hagen. The expedition will visit places where "white men have never been.