GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER, 1929 e CONTENTS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Into Primeval Papua by Seaplane ‘With 99 Mlustrations. E, W. BRANDES: Through Java in Pursuit of Color With 10 Tlustratians W. ROBERT MOORE Java, Queen of the East Indies 29 Namural-Color Photographa A Vacation in Holland With 15 Tlustrations GEORGE ALDEN SANFORD PUBLISHED BY THE Te NATIONAL 4 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY MEMORIAL HALLee Perhaps you have wondered, knowing thar The Hoover is always for sale in the leading stores in your town, why the representa- tives of those stores like to bring The Hoover all the way to your house to show it to-you. ‘This is the reason: the only way you can really tell what The Hoover will do for you is to try it in your own home. But yout house cannot take wings and come to the store. So The Hoover man comes to your home. 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THE HOOVER COMPANY, NORTH CANTON, O110 The oldest and largest maker of electric cleaners The HOOVE AG TOWER gg ll: Sends Merk Se a HEATH ana cuation ar al’? Claws r o fv. Te Haewer aVor. LVI, No, 3 WASHINGTON Sevremper, 1929 GEOGRAPHIC THE NATIONAL | MAGAZINE INTO PRIMEVAL PAPUA BY SEAPLANE Seeking Disease-resisting Sugar Cane, Scientists Find Neolithic Man in Unmapped Nooks of Sorcery and Cannibalism By E. W. Brawpes, Pu. D. Principiat Pathologis warpe, Susrar Plant Iepestigations, und Reader of the New Guinea Expedition naked on Broadway, armed with spear and shield or carrying the severed head of a tribal enemy. he might block traffic; for he vanished, in. the popular sind, with mastoden, mound bier, and and. saber-toothed tiger. Newspapers print the ‘item now if a peasant plowman in France merely turns up an ancient stone ax or a tooth necklace, relics of those who toiled, fought, and died before Babylon was pat or Moses got stone Tablets of the New it is only from wax ears in museums that we commonly get any hint ef how: onr neolithic ancestors dl. ‘There, im glass cases, we see them miaking tools of polished stone for chopping out thee cinoce, ge. for planting: Raphecart gardens in jungle clearings. “Think of making a boat with no tool but a sharp rock!" one hears museum visitors éxelaim, “What a difference the centuries mal Wouldn't primitive man be astonished if he could see tis now, with our radio, our high-power rifles, and flying machines!” [ TO-DAY a stone-age man appeared NEOLITHIC MAN STILL WALKS THE EARTH T cain say that he would, Moreover, he was! . For the bald truth is that neolithic man has not vanished entirely. [n certain far nooks and crannies of the world he lives now just as primitively as he did un- counted thousands of years ago. 1 found him just so when I alighted frosi a plane before a cannibal camp in the remote jun- gles of New Guinea and was mistaken for a god! When his first panic was over, I har a chance to study him at works and play. So it came that I saw him fashion his tude stone ax, and tip his arrow with the hard, sharp, bony toenail of a cassowary. He wanted to trade me smoked human heads for old safety-razor blades or empty rette tins, To him 1, in my. “big hawk," as he called it, with my odd clothes and mysterious weapons, was as much of a curidsity as he would be to us should he come now to Broadway, Perhaps even more s0; for in all probability he had never even heard of a white rice, Olrs tas a queer experience. Put-your- self in our place: fue to face with naked wild man ap the very dawn of reason, P instinets and abysmal urges, his elemental appetite as yet tintempered hy the softening eon: ventions of the life struggle as we kow it. In the weeks that We spent with him, how grimly his primitive manners andoe THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ‘MAGAZINEINTO PRIME LL PAPUA BY SEAPLANE cine ods PAGIFIC ee CORAL SEA AMAR OF NEW Drawn Al, Maesiaad AND (INSET) A SEETCH OF THR TERRITORY IN WHICH THE AUTHOR MADVED NEW LAKES AND CILANTED NEW RIVER COURSES While the chief object the New Guines Expedition was to fied pew varieties of sugar ane, in their seaplane the members saw and were able to chart, by mean of acrial photography, a large ‘ea, parte of which had never before been visited by white men. The dark-chaded ares, comprising the grader poviier cf the eastern hall Of the bai, is the part arered daring, the 4} flights hy the Expeditions seaplane, New Giitica is the secoitd Iangest istamd on earth, Greenland alane exceeding it an-area. ‘The western half of dhe island! is a Nethgrl possession | Ae sine ball ie Giridel isto cro pare —the snathern tall, the Tercory of Pays, br ‘= Land Australian dependency As now administered. { New Guinea is the Australia under a mundate from the indand of the mandate; the remainder (New Britain, New Ireland, and Adniiraity Inland») anil a portion the vocthern hiuli, formerly a German colony, Katser Wilbe! of Nations, North East mes the Bismarck Archipelago. the Soloman Tstauls group. ‘The fuset map, showin the Fly River hasitt, covers 11,000 sqiaare sills, habits reminded ns of what our ancestors once were actually like; and of what a long, hard strigele-man went through on his magnificent moral climb. from: sax ner up to civilization! FLYENG OMI UEMEAN tO NEW GUEN IA Startling it was, also, when now and then we saw these wild men act exactly as we ourselves still act wher under the stress oi fear or great excitement. In such mo- ments of panic, we had to admit, there ix not, after all, such a wide gulf between savage and civilized man. The world's second largest island, New Guinea is called, Fifteen hundred miles Jong, it sprawls just below the Equator, in the western Pacific. Abomt its high moun- tains terrific tainstarms rave. sendiye its rivers roaring across its vast Imulands in floods of Mississippilike proportions. ‘Here and there abort the island’s rim aPhotograph ty Ty. W, Trane PAFUANS MAKE VOYAGES OF TOD ASILES OR MORE IN THESE CRAPT 273) the natives arrive at Port Moresby to trade of “sign on’ ax lab}GRAPHIC MAGAZINTHE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINETWENTY AIEEE FROM PO! ’ ¥ STRETCIL OF TMEROVE DUN Als PAPLIA, THT te ta hysdrveletile pe fy Papua, Part Muresby, Wax only 300 ‘The main ieay) of this i v | River in froin 8INTO PRIMEVAL PAPUA HY SEAPLAN gn ELEVALA (SER; ALSD, PAG zils, mich to the ew, who fr east of Po safe ref broad, black am nitine rivers into the blue of these ri our- faiged the hills: of peal jiletely Jocks the harber feo were shown much gES BUILT ON STILTS OVER WATER aw villages oriinary roof tar Part Moresby lia > whites during oir designed forTHE NATIONAL ¢ APHIC MAGAZINE SITIP OF THEINTO PRIMEVAL PAPUA BY SEAPLAN. r CK, Mi ATAMUAN GOVERNAEENT OFFICIAL, AND! 4x 4 ithers of the, caneininting exped a youre Anierican ik wr a Fr snaparies! the: paar the Sti p twa days. They-were ji bist they had paid o Chinn, where it i making soups), pearls aged in the at Dara, bur 1 of the : ort the Territory of Papua p spent the ti pent America ich, the il boy. truculent, het a str d fellow, clever with bow and Ergo gallons of Hot dams, tons riakle hoat and 30 ment of juncture with the Fly,