Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 August 1935Vol. VI, No. 1

Dr. Reo Fortune

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Page 77

DR. RAYMOND FIRTH, formerly occupant of the chair of anthropology at the University of Sydney, and now lec turer at the University of London, has suggested that Dr. Reo Fortune should

investigate the mummified remains re cently discovered in New Guinea. For some months Dr. Fortune (who is a New Zealander and has been attached to the anthropology department at Sydney Uni versity) has been working at Finintegu, in the Morobe district, New Guinea.

Dr. Fortune was in New Guinea two years ago with his wife, Dr. Margaret Mead, of the American Museum of Nat-

ural History, New York. He is the author of “Omaha Secret Societies” and “Sor cerers of Dobu,” and has contributed to leading- scientific journals; he is a Ph.D of Columbia. Dr. Mead is equally well known for her writings on New Guinea and Samoa. —E.R.

Dr. Reo Fortune.

A photograph of one of the “mummies” found recently in a cave in New Guinea. (See article on page 42 of this issue.)

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