Pacific Islands Monthly

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

April, 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 FPFNiru doivmccia on rco

Our Cover

Roving English photographer Alan Vidler took the cover in Port Moresby. It is one of the “panels” in the stylised haus tambaran, the traditional New Guinea spirit house, which forms a striking entrance to St. Mary's War Memorial Cathedral, seen in the picture at right. It is a faith ful “copy” of the haus tambarans found in the Sepik and is the combined work of two Austra lian artists, John Trainor and Harold Thornton, and six New Guinean artists. The spirit house took six months to complete. It is 64 ft high and at the side there is a traditional door, only 4 ft 6 in. in height, through which entrance is gained to the cathedral. As Archbishop Copas told PIM, the spirit house and the cathedral standing together as one building represent the “marriage” of New Guinea’s pre christian past and its Christian present and future.