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Mons. Dobo’s Collection of Papuan Curios.
From Our Own Correspondent .
Pt. Moresby, May 24.
MONSIEUR DOBO, attached to the Rockefeller Institute at Saigon for anthropological work in French Indo China, left Papua by the “Van Rees” to-day for Saigon.
Monsieur Dobo has been visiting Papua on behalf of the French Govern ment, which has commissioned him to buy for the Musee du Trocadero, Paris, curios of Papua and articles of every day use of the natives in the Territory.
He has been in the Territory three weeks and has been the guest of the Bishop and Fathers of the Sacred Heart Mission at Yule Island and Port Moresby.
While in the Mekeo district, behind Yule Island on the mainland, he visited the village of the Roro tribe, near the mission stations, and was successful in purchasing more than a hundred curios and household effects of the natives of the district for the museum.