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Page 28
... carved in the shape of a crocodile's head Another carved canoe bow , with the figure of a man lying on the crocodile's head This framework is extraordinarily diverse , but in every group.
... carved in the shape of a crocodile's head Another carved canoe bow , with the figure of a man lying on the crocodile's head This framework is extraordinarily diverse , but in every group.
Page 45
... protected by the Australian government as a national monument Detail of the foundation of a cult - house , intricately carved with human and anthropomorphic figures of his existence . It is the same reverberating question.
... protected by the Australian government as a national monument Detail of the foundation of a cult - house , intricately carved with human and anthropomorphic figures of his existence . It is the same reverberating question.
Page 49
... and resigned , troubled and compas- sionate - immemorial statements from the universal prison of a species . Painted bark - cloth hangings and carved images in the men's cult - house at Maprik 50 This , perhaps , is the final word that.
... and resigned , troubled and compas- sionate - immemorial statements from the universal prison of a species . Painted bark - cloth hangings and carved images in the men's cult - house at Maprik 50 This , perhaps , is the final word that.
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Angoram animals Anthropology Asaro Valley assert Australian National University Bark-cloth painting bird of paradise bolong carved cathedral celebrated ceremonial dress characteristic Chimbu area coastal colors coral atolls crocodile's head cult D'ENTRECASTEAUX dance-frame dancing ground Dani-speaking decorated dug-out canoe Dutch Eastern Enga enshrined exist expression feathers festivals Gardens GEORGE HOLTON German New Guinea goals Gulf of Papua harvested yams HUMAN AVIARY impersonal intricate Kenneth E kinship Lake Kopiago lives low-lying valley male initiation man's Maprik marine creatures marriage Matthiesen Melanesian languages Melanesian-speakers men's cult-house Minj Mount Hagen myths Painted bark-cloth hangings paperback Papuan languages photographs Pidgin English plumes Polynesia powers that transcend reflected Relatives gathered sampela School of Pacific Scribner Sepik River skilled species stret suprahuman tasol Territory of Papua thatch timeless transcend his limited transferred to Australia Trobriand Islands ultimate vaulting vernacular differences village vulnerable Wabag Wahgi wealth Western Highlands women yam storehouse York