Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN : The Last of the Kaisers-Emil Ludwig -Putnam ($5). "The colossal egoist, the spoof Napoleon...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...
...native tribes of New Guinea are in an unusually low state of civilization" declared Putnam. "In dealing with the average type of native, the African for example a man may court the favor of the tribal chief by the judicious bestowal of a few trinkets which may take his fancy, and in return for which he will force his humble subjects to pose for photographs etc. But not so with the aborigine of New Guinea. His is a communistic society and he recognizes no will but his own. It is therefore necessary to please each individual and the number...
...Another peculiar feature of the islands is found in the attitude of the Dutch toward the halfbreed," said Putnam. "Contrary to the English practice the Dutch maintain that the slightest drop of white blood makes a white man at least, before the law. As a result the Dutch are confronted with less racial friction than the British colonies...