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Mead New Guinea Expedition
birth: 1931
death: 1933
To do ethnological field work and study primitive women and children
Personnel: Mead, Margaret, leader; Fortune, Reo, sci
Department: AMNH Dept. of Anthropology and Columbia University
Sponsors: AMNH, (in part for Mead, by The Voss Fund); Columbia Universtiy Council for Research in the Social Sciences (for Dr. Foortune)
Sources: AMNH Annual Report No. 63, 1931, p. 21; #64 for 1932, p.41, No. 65, 1933, p. 11-12; Natural History magazine, 1931, Sept.-Oct. P. 559; 1932, May -June, p. 329; XXXIII, 3, May-June, 1933, p. 344; Mead, From the South Seas., New York: Wm. Morrow Co., 1938