HOME OF PRIMITIVE ISLAND RACE.—On the Island of Tucopia, an isolated speck of land about three miles by two, 400 miles south-east of the Solomon group, lives a primitive race of Polynesians. According to Dr. R. W. Firth, who recently returned to . Auckland after spending a year on the island, the natives are in much the same state of civilisation as the Maoris were in Captain Cook’s day. They are remarkable for their fine stature, their long, light-coloured hair, for the flat formation of the backs of their heads. In the picture some Tucopians are showing the captain of a visiting Australian warship around their island home. The cliff in the distance is about 1,200 feet high.
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Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 7
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117HOME OF PRIMITIVE ISLAND RACE.—On the Island of Tucopia, an isolated speck of land about three miles by two, 400 miles south-east of the Solomon group, lives a primitive race of Polynesians. According to Dr. R. W. Firth, who recently returned to . Auckland after spending a year on the island, the natives are in much the same state of civilisation as the Maoris were in Captain Cook’s day. They are remarkable for their fine stature, their long, light-coloured hair, for the flat formation of the backs of their heads. In the picture some Tucopians are showing the captain of a visiting Australian warship around their island home. The cliff in the distance is about 1,200 feet high. Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 7
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