“Pre-Galvanised Iron”
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Bishop Museum Man Seeks Primitive Native Scenes
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Oct. 2.
AMERICAN Bill Murnan, in his unique stainless steel 30-ft. yawl South Seas 11, arrived here, at Kukum, on October 1, his formaldehyde tank on deck stuffed with curious sea creatures and his kodachrome movie camera at the ready for interesting local colour shots.
Mr. Murnan, as recorded in an earlier issue of PIM, is collecting material and films for the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and is making a leisurely study of Pacific potentialities on his way around the world. He came here from the New Hebrides and will go on to Port Moresby after a week’s stay, fetching up later at the Great Barrier Reef.
His films of life in native villages are preserved by the Bishop Museum as a record for posterity of primitive customs and habits, before they give way to out side influences. But, as he says, the “galvanised iron influence” is liable to crop up anywhere these days and, in one hard-boiled Fiji village, a fee of £3O was suggested for arranging what he wished to photograph.
Mr. Murnan hopes to get some in teresting colour shots on the island of Savo, off Guadalcanal.