BROWN (G. Gordon, Anthropologist)

Autograph Letter Signed to H. J. Braunholtz, 1888-1963, of the British Museum, enclosing "a brief sketch of the material culture of the Hebe, together with further notes on the specimens sent you ... the names of the pottery-making instruments are, to the best of my knowledge, the correct versions ... The smoothing stone ... is usually called ki-garga, ki being a diminutive ... when the smallness rather than the 'stoneness' is being emphasised. The word you understood to mean skin is a phonetic impossibility", Brown has written it as 'ng'ingo' , he is arranging to send "a full set of pot-making tools" and asks, "Would you be interested in specimens of Samoan culture? ... There is no necessity to advance any money since I am here for three years and receiving an adequate salary", 3 sides 4to., Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 15th January light marks of paper clips on first side

Braunholtz joined the British Museum in 1913. He was Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities & Ethnography, 1938-1945, and of the Department of Ethnography, 1945-1953. He was also President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1937-1939 and 1941-1943.

Item Date:  1935

Stock No:  16831      £45

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