Peabody Expedition
pp. 82-83 · Read in the full issue
To The
South Pacific
UNDER the leadership of Captain Donald S. Marshall, a group of US anthropologists are making a study of Pacific Island communities for the Peabody Museum. Captain Marshall is at present at Tahiti where he is being assisted by his wife. Mr. George Sheahan Jr. is at the Marquesas where he is engaged in a survey of that Group, Mr.
Wallace Patrick Strauss, MA, is to join the Expedition at a later date.
Two other members have been ap pointed recently—one, Miss Mari anne Stoller, who has been working in New Zealand under a Fullbright Award and studying Maori art is to make a trip to Samoa and possibly Tonga, in the interests of the Ex pedition.
The Rev, Maru G. Check has been asked to supply information about the island of Niue, where he is resi dent Missionary for the London Missionary Society. Mr. Check studied anthropology under Dr. H.
D. Skinner, of Otago University. It was under Dr. Skinner that the late Sir Peter Buck received his first in troduction to anthropology, a sub
ject upon which he became world famous.
The object of the expedition is to observe the way in which the Poly nesian people have reacted to Euro pean influences and to discover ex actly how they are living to-day.
A number of American Univers ities, including Yale, are interested in the findings of the expedition, as also are the Auckland and Otago University Colleges through their Departments of Anthropology.