PRIMITIVE ART RESEARCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 5

PRIMITIVE ART RESEARCH

WIDE SURVEY PLANNED DOMINION CO-OPERATION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. At the request Of' the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, America, Mr. V. F. Fisher, ethnologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, has been granted a year’s leave of absence by the council of the Auckland Institute and Museum to undertake research and display work in primitive art. The director of the museum, Mr. Gilbert Archey, said that in Buffalo wSs one of the finest small museums in America. For some years past it had Organised special courses for museum officers, and the president had stated that a special Carnegie Corporation grant had been made for research and display of primitive art. Five members were being chosen, one a graduate of Harvard University and another a professor from Vienna. Their investigations would be published, and they were desirous of. including in the investigators some one with a sound knowledge of the Pacific.

Mr. Fisher was a young man and well suited to undertake the work, Mr. Archey said. The appointment would be for one year, and Mr. Fisher would be required to report at Honolulu on October 1. Mr. Fisher is chairman of the anthropological and Maori section of the museum, and was secretary of the anthropological section of the recent conference Of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science at Wellington. He is vice-president of the same section of a conference to be held at Canberra next year.