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Sepik, river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, N Papua New Guinea, rising near the border of Indonesia's Papua prov. and Papua New Guinea. It flows east through a large swampy basin to the Bismarck Sea. The river drains a vast mountainous region of central New Guinea and is navigable for small craft c.300 mi (480 km) upstream. |
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The first work that the visitor encounters in this section is a dramatic and outstanding 19th century flute stopper from the Mundugumor peoples of the East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea (Fig. Enhanced with almost 70 photographs from Marilyn's adventures in the jungle of Papua, New Guinea--where she lived in a remote Hauna Village for 25 years, learning the local language, crating an alphabet, and translating the Bible for this tribe on the Sepik Iwam River. Scaglion advocates the interweaving of colonial and indigenous narratives in Sepik history, though the contrast that he draws between Sepik episodic and western linear senses of time may serve rather to obscure the complex ways in which different historicities come to assume common characteristics through interaction. |
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