Word: peru
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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...
Upon their arrival they were greeted by Mr. Frost and other members of the Observatory. President Pardo of Peru, the United States Minister, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, extended courtesies to the party and they were given the freedom of the port. The expedition will make their headquarters at Arequipa, from which place they will make excursions of several months' duration in order to study the manners and customs of the South American Indians of that region...
...safe arrival of the party in Colon in spite of a severe storm which delayed them for a few days. Dr. E. F. Horr, the physician of the party, has been detained in New York, and will sail from there on January 12, to overtake the expedition in Peru...
...Hastings '05 and L. J. de 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...
...from a lake in California. A very rare and singular coat of armor, such as was used by the primitive Hupa Indians, and beautiful head bands of red feathers are worthy of note. Dr. H. Rice '98 has presented various ornaments and weapons collected from the Zaporo Indians of Peru. Dr. J. C. Jones has donated a collection of New Guinea weapons and implements from the islands of the Pacific. From Dr. W. C. Woodworth come cooking implements of the New Hebrides Islanders, Fiji baskets, and other objects collected among the Pacific Islands. A relic of much interest, recently acquired...