Anthropologist.
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American
To Study Torres Straits Natives.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., May 29.
MR. R. L. SHARP, an anthropologist who lately arrived from America, has come up North to do some work for the Australian National Research Council. He has gone to Cowal Creek, about 20 miles from Thursday Island, for two weeks’ observation of the natives there, and, at the end of May, proceeds to the Edward River, 300 miles down the Gulf, where he will be en gaged for the rest of the year.
At Edward River Mr. Sharp will find a community which has had very little contact with outer civilisation, and should thus have some good material to work on. The Anglican Mission authorities are assisting him with transport, etc.