SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— H. 387 



Wednesday, September 10. 



Mr. L. S. B. Leakey. — Types of Pottery associated ivith various Stone Age 

 Cultures in Kenya. 



Miss TiLDESLEY. — The Standardisation of Anthropometric Measurements. 



Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery. — Natives and Government Mandated Territory in 

 New Guinea. 



The native population of that part of New Guinea formerly owned by Germany 

 and now being administrated by Australia under mandate from the League of Nations 

 is believed to exceed half a million. Over 117,000 of these people have been visited 

 by Government officials, and new tribes are coming under control every year. 



For the purpose of administration the territorj' is divided into eight districts, each 

 in charge of a district officer and staff, which includes European officers of armed 

 constabulary and a number of native constables recruited in various parts of the 

 territory. 



The natives of New Guinea are known as Papuasians and are divided into two 

 main linguistic groups — those who speak Austronesian languages and show Micro- 

 nesian, Polynesian and Melanesian influences, and those who speak languages known 

 as Papuan. 



Generally the Papuan-speaking peoples occupy the interior, but here and there 

 their settlements occur also on the coast. For the most part, however, the coastal 

 regions and the small islands forming part of the territory are occupied by Austronesian- 

 speaking peoples, though in places like the Morobe district, Melanesian thrusts extend 

 inland for some distance, especially on the Markham river, where they may be found 

 100 miles inland. Micronesian influences are seen amongst the people of the smaller 

 islands lying nearest to the Equator, while Polynesian influences are found on the 

 Feads, Mortlock and Tasman Islands, north and north-east of Bougainville. 



The natives of New Guinea present great differences in type, language and culture, 

 and offer a maze of problems to the anthropologist. 



In order the better to help these people along the road to progress, the Government 

 of the Territory has established a system of training the cadets of its district administra- 

 tion staff in anthropology. These young men, chosen in the first place for educational 

 and general capabilities, spend two years on the out-stations under the supervision 

 of experienced district officers, and then, having proved themselves likely to be 

 successful officials, are attached for a year to the School of Anthropology, Sydney 

 University, where they receive training in anthropology, the elements of tropical 

 hygiene, surveying, etc., and then return to the Territory to take up positions as 

 patrol officers, where they will be in contact with the natives, but still for some years 

 under supervision until they merit promotion to the rank of Assistant District Officer. 



The New Guinea Administration is making every effort to develop its native races 

 without unnecessary damage to the very elaborate institutions which form part of 

 native life, thus fulfilling the trust imposed on it by the League of Nations ' to 

 advance the moral and material welfare of the native population.' 



Dr, M. Vassitz. — Excavations on the Neolithic Site at Vinca. 



Mr. A. J. Goodwin.- — The Royal Regiinental System of arming the Ama 



Mpondo. 



Presented and taken as read : — 



(i) Henky M. Ami. — Five years' excavations at Combe-Capelle, Dordogne, in the 

 Moustierian, by the Canadian School of Prehistory. 



The paper contains an account of the work done and the results obtained by the 

 Canadian School of Prehistory from the site placed at its disposal by the French 

 Government in 1925. The discoveries of implements and fossil organic remains in 

 the five beds or strata superimposed one upon the other are noticed, which beds rest 

 unconformably at a series of Pleistocene or Quaternary deposits upon the eroded 



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