Island Potters
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Letter to the Editor IN Mr. F. J. Morgan’s article on “Island Potters,” in the March number of the “PIM” there occurs this passage; “Except in Fiji, glazed ware is not made without European influence.”
Broken pieces of glazed ware, of skilled designs, were unearthed in 1901, at Wani gela, in Collingwood Bay, Papua. The villagers were unable to explain this, they
being immigrants on the coast.
It has not been unusual, in the Terri tory, to find that, in places, there have been people of a higher culture than those encountered there to-day.
Ethnologically, Papua will continue to remain a land of mystery.
I am, etc.,
R. A. Vivian.
Magnetic Island, Qld.
April 18, 1945.