. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Williams on Fijian Housebuilding, 23 ability, but in matters of etlmology very little that was precise was obtainable, or at least obtained, by the explorers of those times. It seems very unfortunate that when old customs and people still existed, there were no trained ethnologists, and when the advance of scientific methods has put many ardent explorers in the way, both people and customs have almost vanished from the earth. My honored friend Dr. Charles Pickering, who was th
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Williams on Fijian Housebuilding, 23 ability, but in matters of etlmology very little that was precise was obtainable, or at least obtained, by the explorers of those times. It seems very unfortunate that when old customs and people still existed, there were no trained ethnologists, and when the advance of scientific methods has put many ardent explorers in the way, both people and customs have almost vanished from the earth. My honored friend Dr. Charles Pickering, who was the ethnologist of the expedition, did what he could in the *^Races of Man", but anthropological measurements were not thought of, or at least wanting, and generalization took the place of the prying questions and minute observations of the present day. Anthropologists today know more about an individu^al negro than was known in 1840 about the whole Fijian race,—nay, than was known of all the peo- ples of the vast Pacific Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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