WOMEN EXPLORER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 15

WOMEN EXPLORER

FOll AFRICAN IVILOS. A one-woman expedition to the remote sections of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia is being undertaken by Dr Alary L. Jobe Akeley, widow of the sculptor, naturalist and explorer, Carl Akeley, and adviser in the Akeley African Hall now being built at tho American Aluseum of Natural History, New York. Dr Akeley, who has left New York for Africa, will also visit Swaziland and Zululand. In the Transvaal and Rhodesia she will make a study of wild life and collect material for the museum. In Swaziland and Zululand she will make films of animal life and the ceremonials of the primitive tribes 1 with which she comes in contact. Dr Akeley will organise her own safari, and will travel alone for the greater part of her journey, living in the open under a small green tent. She lias already passed fifteen months, in Africa, having assisted her husband on his last expedition when he collected specimens for the American Aluseum from Kenya, Tanganyika,

Jganda, the northern frontier and die Belgian Congo. Mr Akeley died while the expedition was in progress, and his wife carried it through to a successful conclusion. She stayed on, living in the gorilla country of the Belgian Congo for two months, studying the great apes and obtaining photographs and plants for the Akeley Hall. Before her marriage Dr Akeley made several mountaineering expeditions into the Canadian Rockies. In 1925 the Geographic Board _of Canada named a high mountain in Northern British Columbia after her, in recognition of her explorations in the Mount Sir Alexander region from 1913 to 1917. The peak was named Mount Jobe.