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... intricate barbs of an arrowhead , in sensing the balance of the shaft for a spear , in aligning the rafters of a roof . But these aptitudes have not become embalmed in full - time professionalism . There are no artisans , merchants , or ...
... intricate barbs of an arrowhead , in sensing the balance of the shaft for a spear , in aligning the rafters of a roof . But these aptitudes have not become embalmed in full - time professionalism . There are no artisans , merchants , or ...
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... intricately meshed with one another : family and extended groups of kinsmen , local oppositions and notions of man's nature . And all of this is imbued with air , encapsuled in imaginings that every human group has devised as answers to ...
... intricately meshed with one another : family and extended groups of kinsmen , local oppositions and notions of man's nature . And all of this is imbued with air , encapsuled in imaginings that every human group has devised as answers to ...
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... is 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.
... is 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.
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Angoram animals Anthropology Asaro Valley 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 Markham 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