Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straight-Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...
Another of man's big (and probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
...offending was such that nobody was bold enough to press the Argentine delegation for a report on, say, freedom of the press in Buenos Aires. It was not the thing to ask the representative from South Africa for a summation of the state of racial tolerance in the Transvaal, or to cross-question Egyptians on the rule of law and the state of human rights in their country "without distinction, of race, sex, language or religion." Even the Americans, constantly pressing for bold action, remained diffident. "We can't afford to give the impression that we're running...
...current American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart, of Johannesburg, gives the Transvaal pygmies their biggest boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...
...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...