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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1972Vol. 43, No. 5

Pacific Island Monthly

pp. 1-21 · Read in the full issue

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

May, 1972

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Our Cover

This month PIM features a young lady of the Solomon Islands who was caught by the photographer while tun ing her guitar for a dance in Honiara. The instrument may be an importation, but music and the dance are part of the inheritance of every South Sea islander.—Photograph by Richard Rudd.