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Show P i 8A DESERET NEWS AND TEIEGRXM, WY W A NX u Soil lok. City, rforWoy, Juno 7, 1942 UU I . G21P2G" j? jMariamSlaia , . . packs snakebite ExMode1 kit Planr Expedition To Study Africans By GAY PAULEY ' "TsWYCKITTURT - Men-- ' tion woman anthropologist and the mind usually Imagines aj sturdy, tailored type digging - in the ruins of an ancient eivii Jzatiom. Then comes along Dr, Mariam. Slater to wreck that Image; Anthropologist Slater .. has hair, large brown! eyes and the figure of the fashion model which she once was. I Shes five feet, six inches bare-- ) foot and weighs 115 pounds: A former reporter and some-- 1 times actress and short story writer. Dr. Slater Is an lnstruc-- j tor In anthropology at Queens College of the City University -of New York.-- Will Shed Shell On June 30, the anthropologist will shed her city slicker shell complete with "little nothing" sheath dresses and head for Africa and 15 months in the bush country where khaki pants, tent and snakebite kit will be part of standard equipment Purpose of the trip: to study the customs ofa tribe called the Nyiha, which lives in an Isolated area of the corridor In the southeastern coastal area of Africa. According to the anthropolknowlogist little first-hanedge of the Nyiha exists In research literature. The pioneering studies were done by Dr. Monica Wilson, whom Dr. Slater plans to visit at the University of Capetown. Tribe little Known She does know that the tribe, believed to number about is seminomadic, and that Its members are cultivators who depend on millet and on milk from their cattle as their food staples. Various groups of Nyiha, Dr. .Slater said, follow their herds within a radius of the village of Myeba, a, territory ranging from the cold mountain ranges to the stifling lake-shor- e plains of southwestern Tanganyika. She feels that because iso lation has preserved the tribe from cultural changes the outside world knows of, it offers an excellent laboratory for study of the processes of social change. Daughter Of Physician Dr. Slater, a native of Washington, D.C is the daughter I red-brow- n Nyasa-Tan-ganyik- a d 60,-00- e Iresearch specialist in oxygen therapy. Her parents now are retired and live in Ft Lauderdale, Fla. The anthropolo gist was graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa., in 1941 andcame to New. York. planning to go on the stdge. - She worked as a reporter for Life Magazine for a whiled for Conover Modeling Agency, did some short stories and finally decided that if i were going to do . any serious writing it needed more studying of peo- -pim That," she said in an Interview at her modemistically furnished apartment in the fashionable Washington Square area of NewYork, is tine way of saying that I . good at What Td already attempted." She enrolled in Columbia Universitys anthropology department where one of her in- structofi was the famous Dr, Margaret Mead. She researched foe her doctors dissertation by bring for five months with native peoples of northeast Martinique, the French colonial island in the Caribbean. Since 1958 she has been on the Queens College staff. Shell fly to Mombasa where she will line up her crew a "houseboyAhdtwo Interpreters, -- one to translate the complicated Nyiha dialect Into Swahili and the other to translate Swahili into English, Dr. Slater said the trip bad been in the thinking stage for more than a year but she -- didnt- start concrete plans snt2 the Fort Foundation granted her $3,200 to help underwrite It -- - $299.00 VahwiKri price 111 . - I jrz: - ? Unutvalty xqbrta-J- t JftVdkuggnd atrtambla n brgi diamond end 1 rdioi cut perfectly HI motcKccI diamond I. $500.00 il ol - |
