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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1973Vol. 44, No. 4

Pacific Islands Monthly

pp. 1-3 · Read in the full issue

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

April, 1973

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Our Cover

This Yapese, the Chief of Fossari on Ulithi atoll in the Yap District of the Western Carolines, has his whole life behind and in front of him.

His life story is told in the tattoos on his body. This strik ing study is the work of photographer Norman J.

Quinn.