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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained that in the entire territory of Dutch New Guinea including thousands of square miles there are only three white settlements in each of which there are approximately 20 white inhabitants. Today, of course, the cannibalistic and head hunting proclivities of the natives are confined almost exclusively to the interior, where the inhabitants of one village not only hunt and eat the men, women and children of the next village, but speak an entirely different language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Explorer Tells of Peculiar Dietetics of New Guinea Natives--Papuans Are Linguistically Isolated | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Cluett-Peabody-inspectors hunt for skipped stitches in collars and shirts-profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Doctor-etchers: Percy Friedberg, Leigh H. Hunt, Hermann Fischer, all of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor Artists | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eadgar, Aethelwold, Aelfrida | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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