Germans to Study-Tribal Types in West Australia

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 11

Germans to StudyTribal Types in West Australia

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN An expedition organized by the Institute of Cultural Morphology has left Germany for Western Australia where it is to spend a year studying the life and activities of the most primitive tribes in that region. The expedition consists of five members and will carry on its ethnographic and prehistoric researches in the district between the Glenelg and Fitzroy Rivers. Its special aim is to establish contact with a tribe of the early Stone Age, among whom prehistoric rock paintings and sketches are still report-, ed to exist. Prof. Leo Frobenius, founder of the Institute which has organized this expedition, is world-famous for his discoveries of such primitive rock and cave drawings in Africa and it is now hoped to make a systematic study of such works from different parts of the world for the purpose of reaching some general conclusions as to prehistoric art in general. Similar expeditions have been sent to other parts of the world, and one of these is expected back from the Moluccas in April next. Teacher: “Tommy, what is your great ambition?” Tommy: “To wash mother’s ears.”