The Fish Shooter
p. 79 · Read in the full issue
The original of the present P a P ua -New Guinea £1 stamp, and the original of the 9d stamp that was part of the first Pre war Papuan issue of pictorials. Sanasl. who sent us this photograph, says that at the time the Papuan Pictorials were issued, “some crank ' accused the designer of copying a British Guiana stamp. He says that this old photograph proves that this was not so — it was taken by Mr. H.
M Dauncey an LMS missionary, early IS this century. The Orokolo natives of Papua still use this method of shooting fish—the platforms being a mangrove sapling root, reversed, and sunk into the mud and sand of Western Papua beaches.