Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1972Vol. 43, No. 1

Pacific Islands Monthly

pp. 1-22 · Read in the full issue

Page 11Page 22Page 33Page 44

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January, 1972

Australia, Nz, Geic, Bsip 50C

PNG, FIJI, COOKS, TONGA, W. SAMOA, N. HEBRIDES 45c

Nauru, Norfolk, Niue 45C

AMERICAN SAMOA 70c HAWAII 80c MICRONESIA 90c NEW CALEDONIA 65 CFP FRENCH POLYNESIA 90 CF?

Our Cover

This Indian firewalker, devotee of the Goddess Kali, sits with eyes staring in a trance while a silver trident is driven through his tongue.

There will be no blood and no wound. Sheree Lipton took the picture before a firewalking cere mony in Fiji described on p. 40.

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