Word: arequipa
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Professor F. W. Putnam '62, curator of the Peabody Museum, has recently received word from Dr. W. C. Farabee '00, head of the Peabody Museum South American Ethnological Expedition, which started December 17, 1906, of their safe arrival at Arequipa, Peru, where the Harvard Observatory is situated...
...Milhau '06; Mrs. Farabee, and the accompanying physician, Dr. E. F. Horr, who has been an army surgeon in Cuba and the Philippines. They will leave on a government steamer for the Isthmus and from Panama will go by steamer to Mollendo, Peru, and thence by train to Arequipa, where the headquarters of the expedition will be established...
...intention of the expedition to make from its headquarters at Arequipa, on the western slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is situated, trips of a few months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically...
Headquarters for the work will be at Arequipa, Peru, on the west slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is located. From this point trips of a few months' duration will be made among the neighboring Indian tribes. The main work will be among the tribes living on the head waters of the Amazon and Parana Rivers. There has been no previous expedition of this sort from America, and the only work done in this region has been by the Germans. In an ethnological way the region is practically unexplored, and will be of the greatest importance in advancing...
...Anthropology, will next fall be in charge of a small party, composed of L. J. de Milhau '06, J. W. Hastings 2G., and some third person not yet definitely chosen, to carry on research work about the head-waters of the Amazon. In October the party will leave for Arequipa, Peru, where temporary headquarters will be established. The work, which will probably take three years, will consist chiefly in studying the manners and customs of the native tribes, and in gathering ethnological material for the Department of Anthropology...