MUSEUM WORK IN UNITED STATES

Southland Times, Issue 23460, 17 March 1938, Page 4

MUSEUM WORK IN UNITED STATES

Auckland Official To Undertake Research PRIMITIVE ART TO BE STUDIED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 16. At the request of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, United States, Mr V. F. Fisher, ethnologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, was granted a year’s leave of absence by the Auckland Institute and Museum Council to undertake research and display work in primitive art. The director of the museum, Mr Gilbert Axchey, said that in Buffalo was one of the finest small museums in America. For. some years past it had organized special courses for museum officers and the president had stated that a special Carnegie Corporation grant had been made for research and the 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 someone 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 file recent conference of Australian and New Zealand Associations for the Advancement of Science at Wellington. He is vice-president of the same section of the conference to be held at Canberra next year.