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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 6

Revisits Cooks

p. 38 · Read in the full issue

Dr. Don Marshall Revisits Cooks

DR. D. S. MARSHALL brought his wife and three children with him when he returned to the Cook Islands in early No vember. Dr. Marshall, an Amer can anthropologist and student of Poly

nesian languages, arrived at Raro tonga by the yacht Mareva, on No vember 10.

Marshall is an associate of Harvard University and is attached to the Peabody Museum at Salem, Mass. He has made a comparative study of 60 Polynesian dialects through which he has elicited in

formation on the great Polynes] migrations and the Polynesia length of residence in some Islan He left the Cook Islands America about two years ago.

After two days in Rarotonga, t Marshalls left on the Mareva Mangaia, where they plan to si

fcr six months.-

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