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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1967Vol. 38, No. 5

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pp. 1-15 · Read in the full issue

Pacific Islands Monthly

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May, 1967

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

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Not a gingerbread man, but i “Bioma”, a sacred wooden i oar d representing a man, originally from a men’s house in he Gulf District of Papua, and low in the Papua-New Guinea Museum, Port Moresby. The original is two ft high. The colour transparency was taken oy Neville Moderate, of the a -NG Administration. In this ssue, “PIM” staff writer Ken McGregor surveys the New Guinea artifacts business.