I Hopes to Find "Pig-Headed" Indians f , ' - a , i, - , , 1 l' . .'.' ,:.. a O.W v.- : i I!-. - 1 rl-y - i ' ' j . ; ' ' 5 " , i . 7 7" T' ' , L ' s : Sr. - v ';'-'; -j r - , v ' , . -f r r rf " y I ' "i : 1 i - - ' . rJf - ', I ! ',' i " t - " " 1 ( , t - - y'f' " "" A I.UMt trek through the hostile jungles of northernmost Brazil's pristine "Half World," in search of new light on the savage tribes infesting infest-ing the dark recesses of that most inaccessible in-accessible of territories, has been begun be-gun by Desmond Iloldridge, twenty-four-year-old leader of the Brooklyn Museum's Brazil expedition, according accord-ing to a cablegram received by Lee Trenholm, the expedition's New York manager. "Leaving for Catrimany" was the brief text of the message, dispatched from Manaos, an inland metropolis at the confluence of the Negro and the Amazon 1,000 miles from the Atlantic. It laconically imparted the information that Iloldridge, accompanied by a native na-tive mechanic and Emerson Smith, expedition ex-pedition motion picture cameraman, had set out from Manacs in their 32-foot 32-foot cabin cruiser Rio-Mar on a G0O-mile G0O-mile water Journey up the Negro and Branca rivers to the head of navigation naviga-tion of the Rio Catrimany. At this point, Iloldridge has long planned to plunge westward alone Into In-to the enveloping silence of the unexplored unex-plored and deadly "Melo Mundo" or Half World. Somewhere within the fastness he hopes to locate "pig-headed" Indians and to establish definitely that their porcine ceremonial masks rather than actually misshapen crani-ums crani-ums have been responsible for reports of their existence. It will be about four months before Holdridge is to emerge 300 to 400 miles to the west on the Venezuelan side of the Parima mountains and descends the Orinoco watershed to keep a rendezvous with Smith and the Itio-Mur where the liiver Turuaca, tributary of the Amazon, meets the Casslguiare canal, an anomaly of nature na-ture connecting the headwaters of South America's two mightiest streams. In June, Smith is to start from Manaos fur the meeting place, going via the Negro and Siapa rivers. Sharing with Col. P. H. Fawcctt, lost British explorer, the belief that the fastest progress through the jungle can be made with a small party aud light equipment, Iloldridge is stripping his outfit and personnel to an irreducible irredu-cible minimum for his arduous journey through the Melo Mundo. Anti-venom, medicines, sidearms, notebooks, a hand movie camera and trinkets to propitiate the natives are the bulk of his impedimenta. For sustenance, ho will depend on the rivers, the forest and friendly Indians. In-dians. Enlisting two native aides, he intends making his way by dug-out along the waterways whenever feasible feas-ible or over rough trails hewn from the wilderness by machete when river travel becomes unsafe or impracticable. imprac-ticable. Among the hidden Indian villages vil-lages which dot the region days are to be spent taking photographs, assembling as-sembling data and seeking news of unreported tribes. On the cruise from Manaos to as far as the Rio-Mar's 3-foot draught permits them to ascend the Catrimany, Holdridge and Smith were to make a detailed motion picture record of the extraordinary native and animal life to be found on every hand, seeking especially a scientifically complete camera study of a rare bird popularly known as the "Cock of the Rocks."