N.G. Specimens for Museum
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A SECOND shipment of 215 ethnological specimens has been received from N.
Guinea by the Australian Museum, Syd ney, making more than 400 in all con signed from the Sepik and Ramu Rivers by Mr. E. J. Wauchope, who is collecting for the trustees. Native art is deterior ating rapidly, many skilled carvers dis carding their primitive tools for pick and shovel work in the gold mines.
Mr. G. Broadbent, of the Rabaul ship ping department of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., arrived in Sydney in August.