DISTINGUISHED N.Z. ANTHROPOLOGIST

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25379, 30 December 1947, Page 4

DISTINGUISHED N.Z. ANTHROPOLOGIST

RETURN FROM CANADA ON HOLIDAY One of the leading anthropologists of the present day. Dr. Diamond Jenness, who is among the few New Zealanders upon whom the University of New Zealand has conferred honorary degrees, has returned to the Dominion on holiday after nearly 30 years in Canada. Dr. Jenness, who is an authority on the Indians and Eskimos of Canada, is attached to the Department of Mines and Resources at Ottawa, and is chief of the Canadian Government's anthropological section. Dr. Jenness was formerly a student of Victoria University College, graduating M.A. in 1908 with first-class honours in classics. He went to Oxford after his studies in New Zealand, and there took the second part of th® Litera Humaniores school, and also obtained the diploma in anthropology. In 1912 he conducted an expedition to the D’Entrecasteaux Islands, New Guinea, where his brother-in-law was a missionary, and in 1920, with his brother-in-law. published an account of his researches, entitled “The Northern D’Entrecasteaux.” _Dr Jenness was a member of th® Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18, ana has written numerous and extensive articles dealing with various phases of Eskimo anthropology, and in addition a wellknown book entitled “Children ?* J 5& Twilight,” published in 1928. in 1932 he published an exhaustive report on the Indians of Canada. An important series of monographs by . uu American authorities dealing American aborigines was Published under his editorshio in 1933, ana to this series he contributed a E?mo r ”° n ~The Problcm of th « Es ’ tbc anthropological secV? n * be Canadian Government, Dr. Jenness is also in charge of the andepartment of the Canadian National Museum, Ontario. In AnX on : rec pmmendation of the ~c° the Senate of the New Zealand conferred on nim the honorary degree of Doctor u Onlv . seve n other hons bave been conferred bv inriJirtlH er T lty j a 2 d A he recipients have R»lv ded c- Lo r? Ruthe rford. Sir Peter William Ma r ?iI Orge JuliuS ' and Sir