New Book On Pacific
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Racial Origins
IT was reported in this journal, in 1938, that Dr. Carl Schuster, who is connected with the Harvard Univer sity, was in the Pacific, making a close study of Melanesian designs. In this connection, he examined many museum collections —especially in Australia, New Zealand, Suva and Honolulu. This study is helpful in solving the problems of Pacific racial origins.
Under date of May 9, Dr. Schuster writes to the editor of the “PIM” from 474 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; and, inter alia, he remarks: “It
may be of interest to some of your read ers to know that my book, embodying the researches referred to in your jour nal in 1938, is soon to go into print with the Harvard University Press and, bar ring misfortunes due to the war, it should appear some time in 1942 under the title, ‘The Sunbird; Continuity of a Design Tradition in Eurasia and Ocea nia’. jt w m b e a double volume in the Monograph Series of the Harvard-Yench ing Institute ' Much o£ the materlal fOT this book wa *J gathered through the courtesy of collectors in the Solomons an( * of museum officials in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii.”