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Hiri : archaeology of long-distance maritime trade along the south coast of Papua New Guinea / Robert John Skelly and Bruno David.
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Title:Hiri : archaeology of long-distance maritime trade along the south coast of Papua New Guinea / Robert John Skelly and Bruno David.
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Author/Creator:Skelly, Robert John, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:David, Bruno, 1962- author.
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Published/Created:Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: GN799.C45 S44 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Commerce, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Pottery, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Papua New Guinea.
Motu (Papua New Guinean people)--Commerce--History.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea--Antiquities.
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Description:xxxv, 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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Summary:"In the late 1800s ... each year the Motu women manufactured tens of thousands of clay pots to be loaded onto the ships that men built then sailed with their cargos westward some 400 kilometres ... the pots ... were exchanged for hundreds of tons of sago flour. While in those villages, the men dismantled their ships and built them anew ... because trees of sufficient size to make large sailing ships did not grow in the lands of their home villages. Both the Motu of the Port Moresby region and sago producers of the Gulf of Papua to the west knew of these ventures as 'hiri'. The origin of the 'hiri' has long remained a mystery ..." Dust jacket.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-561) and index.
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ISBN:9780824853662 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0824853660 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Prolegomena
ch. 2 Early European Visions of the Hiri in British New Guinea
ch. 3 Archaeology along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea
ch. 4 Kouri Lowlands
ch. 5 Old Helau: Islands in the Sea
ch. 6 Keveoki: Traces of the Ancestral Hiri
ch. 7 Meiharo: Tracking Past Settlement of Ancient Coastlines
ch. 8 Lui Ovo: Road to the Sea
ch. 9 Oheo Yopo: Looking Down to the Sea
ch. 10 Iri Kahu: The Promised Land
ch. 11 Kaveharo: A Coastal Trading Village
ch. 12 Hopo: Hori's Forgotten Village
ch. 13 Hohelavi: Hori's Eravo
ch. 14 Hivo: Lagatoi Harbor
ch. 15 Potted History of the Kouri Lowlands
ch. 16 "Marvellous" Lives in "Vile" Places: Making Sense of the Past in the Kouri Lowlands
ch. 17 Hiri in History.