(I) Walkabout: (2) Art and Life in New Guinea

Abstract

(1) THOSE interested in Pacific affairs may recall the unusual and stimulating collection of ethnographical specimens, predominantly from New Guinea, exhibited by Lord Moyne in his London house last summer. His volume, “Walkabout” (Pacific ‘pidgin’ for travel beyond the tribal territory), records the experiences of the expedition upon which this fine series of objects was collected and also tells us something of the animals brought back to the Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park, London, and of the difficulties of getting them there. But while the collecting of animals and ethnographical specimens was one of the major objects of the expedition, its chief aim seems to have been to study a group of relatively light-skinned pygmies who were said to inhabit the foothills on the north-eastern slopes of the Bismarck Range in Mandated Territory.

(I) Walkabout:

a Journey in Lands between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. By Lord Moyne. Pp. xxvi + 366 + 97 plates. (London and Toronto: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1936.) 18s. net.

(2) Art and Life in New Guinea

By Dr. Raymond Firth. Pp. 126. (London: The Studio, Ltd.; New York: The Studio Publications, Inc., 1936.) 10s. 6d.net.