Show IES LIKE TRIAL FRESNO C. C By The Associated Pre J marriage has been practiced by the P pygmies es ot of New Guinea for untold generations Dr Matthew A A. Stirling noted anthro- anthro anthropologist anthropologist of Berkeley Calif declared in an Interview here Stirling recently returned from a year two expedition Into the interior of Dutch New Guinea Living In a veritable stone age cul- cul culture culture ture with stone axes and bows and arrows for weapons and only the crude wood wooden n dishes these diminutive blacks are gradually disappearing so that ii h enly five places on the earth may they the be found today Dr Stirling said They have no literature no art artery very ery little music Each Ellch tribe has its own crude language Marriage is by purchase and that only after the prospective groom has shopped around for a wife living first with one woman then another Finally satisfied that his choice Is a good worker and child chUd bearer he buys bugs her Irons from her relatives paying for tor her In shells or som some other medium of ex- ex change The marriage ceremony Is simple Taking his stone axe the groom cuts of off a a. portion of the brides bride's ring finger Unger That's all there Is to It The New Guinea pygmies are arc peace peace- lovIng folk Stirling found but when finally aroused get put the old stone hatchet don the rattan armour and go to war The largest nen are about four feet tall 1311 |