In the period 1958-63 Mr Maier was a lay missionary builder with the Divine Word Mission. When he took an interest in stone artifacts, Father Heinrich Aufenanger SVD, who later became Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Nanzan University in Japan, instructed him in how to document artifacts. Whilst in Chimbu Mr Maier collected 234 stone tools documenting them in detail, including photographs of the stone implements and the people who sold/gave them to Mr Maier.The collection was eventually sold to the Std̃tische Museum für Vl̲kerkunde in Frankfurt. Some of the data sheets have been published by Carl A. Schmitz in 'Steinerne schalenmr̲ser, pistille und vogelfiguren aus Zentral Neuguinea' in Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XIV, in 1966, pages 1-60.
From the description of Stone tool collection data sheets, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea [microform]. 1958-1963. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224452368
