Editing Diamond Jenness (section)

=== Field work – Northern D’Entrecasteaux ===
From 1911 to 1912, as an Oxford Scholar, he studied a little-known group of people on the [[D'Entrecasteaux Islands]] in eastern [[Papua New Guinea]].<ref name="Rich"/> Jenness comments:

:::"They peered at me from out-of-the-way corners, or through the doors of their huts, always at a safe distance. Recalling a children's [game] I had learned in one of the coast villages, I stooped down, tapped the ground with my fingers and chanted the refrain. The children drew nearer and nearer, and one or two with broad smiles began to imitate me. Then with a piece of string, I made some of their own cat's cradle figures and held them out for their inspection. This turned the scale. Five minutes later a laughing crowd surrounded me…The natives could hardly believe that I was a white man, and kept asking my [guides] who I was, how I came to speak their language and where I had learned their game.”<ref name="Jenness 2008. p.33">Jenness, Diamond and Stuart E. Jenness, 2008. "Through Darkening Spectacles: Memoirs of Diamond Jenness" Mercury Series, History Paper 55, Gatineau, QC: Canadian Museum of Civilization, p.33</ref>