Word: anthropologist
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TIME herewith accepts Anthropologist White's correction. Henceforth when two things or people bear a close resemblance, TIME will bear in mind the corrected phrase spit-&-image...
...Frobenius collection is one more example of the productive possibilities of the single-track mind. In 1886, when Leo Frobenius was a small Berliner of 13, he had made up his mind he was going to be an anthropologist. At 15 he had become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came...
...Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned a lively bison, with a fine high hump, muscular forelegs, a head set well enough to do justice to contemporary Animal Artist John Raltenbury Skeaping (TIME, May 3). In Khotsa Cave, 5,000 mi. from Spain in Basutoland, South Africa, Anthropologist Frobenius found the Altamira bison's twin. The long-legged silhouet of a wildly running bowman found at Saltadora, Spain was duplicated in Basutoland at Bogati Hill; other parallelisms or derivatives sprang up time after time...
...Anthropologist Mildred Trotter of Washington University (St. Louis) found that the hair of Arabs is more oval (less circular) in cross-section and larger in circumference than that of U. S. whites...
Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...