ORIGIN OF RACES.
POLYNESIAN RESEARCH. STATEMENT BY DR. BUCK. HONOLULU, Aug. 1. Dr. P. H. Buck, of New Zealand, who is under a five-years’ contract to the Bishop Museum to do ethnographic work, departed yesterday for Samoa to undertake Polynesian research. Dr. Buck expressed the belief that the origin of this race is Asia. He said: “Many centuries ago, probably in the early Christian era, there lived in south-eastern Asia a people dominantly Caucasian and Mongolian, whom we now call Polynesian. They began a gradual exodus, and there is evidentce that they went first to Indonesia, thence to Samoa, and gradually to New Zealand.”
Dr. Buck is accompanied by two other scientists. Their studies will include physical anthropolgy, material culture, social organisation, religion, and language.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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128ORIGIN OF RACES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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