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...valuable collection of ethnological specimens has recently been received by the University of Pennsylvania Museum from Dr. William G. Farabee, who is at the head of the university's Amazon expedition. The specimens were collected in the southern part of British Gulana among the Carib and Arowak Indians and other hitherto unknown tribes. They include clothing for men and women, made from the feathers of the Macan and other birds of rich plumage, paintings of religious ceremonials on sticks, bead work, bows, and arrows, spears, hammocks and domestic utensils. None of them, according to archaeoligists at the university, show...
...Hamilton Rice '98, F.R.G.S., will deliver a lecture, illustrated by stereopticon, on "Further Explorations in the Northwest Amazon Basin, 1912-13," at the Harvard Club of Boston this evening at 8.30 o'clock...
...lecture will consist of an account of the last expedition and the continuation of the work of previous explorations which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro. Another purpose was to collect ethnological information relative to the aboriginal inhabitants and to explore the forests where these primitive people lived previously untouched by civilization. The valley of the Amazon is the last great unexplored tract of the earth's surface...
...Hamilton Rice '98, F. R. G. S., on "Further Explorations in the North-west Amazon Basin, 1912-13" at the Harvard Club Boston...
Thursday, March 5, a talk, illustrated by stereopticon, will be given by Dr. A. H. Rice '98, at 8.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Further Explorations in the Northwest Amazon Basin, 1912-1913." An account of the last expedition and continuation of the work of the previous explorations, which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro, will feature the talk...