Kiwai Island

island, New Guinea

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In Oceanic art and architecture: The lower Fly River
On Kiwai, the large island at the mouth of the Fly River, initiation was marked by the display of naturalistic, almost life-size figures of ancestral men and women. Their heads were virtually identical with the masks made on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Small pendant…
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