Abstract
EARLY in 1898, a small band of Cambridge scholars prepared for an unusual adventure: a research expedition to primitive New Guinea and adjoining islands. The group, assembled by Alfred C. Haddon, biologist turned ethnologist, boasted a variety of talents. Two of its members were W. H. R. Rivers, a medically trained physiologist and psychologist, and his pupil, C. S. Myers; they were to study the sensory perceptions of the natives and obtain information on primitive psychology. Anthropology was then in its infancy as a science; Rivers and Myers were to demonstrate for the first time that primitive people did not . . .
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