promotion
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Art for PNG's promotion
Artifacts will become an im portant part of Papua New Guinea’s overseas promotion.
The National Cultural Council is negotiating to establish a per manent display in PNG House, Sydney, and other collections will be housed in PNG embas sies around the world.
The council believes that dis plays of traditional culture can play a big part in promotion.
“Papua New Guinea art is re cognised as the best primitive art in the world and wherever possible we should display it overseas”, Wewak Cultural Centre director, Mr Ricky Wyatt, said.
Mr Wyatt said the National Cultural Council was negotiating to get floor space in PNG House, Sydney, and hoped to base an artifact export firm in Sydney as part of the council’s plans to increase Papua New Guinean interests in the artifact trade.
He added that the National Cultural Council was also inves tigating the immediate possibility of housing displays in West Germany, Japan and the United States.