Author: Caroline Mytinger
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786257815
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 559
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More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name. Their objective was to paint portraits of the tribal people of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before the encroachment of modern, European-style culture changed their lives forever. This gripping book tells of the two women’s experiences whilst travelling through Melanesia between 1926 and 1930.
Author: Caroline Mytinger
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Category : New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Charles Morris Woodford
Publisher: London ; Liverpool : Philip
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: CAROLINE MYTINGER
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Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Nigel Randell
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472113322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Shanghaied in San Francisco in 1868, teenage Scots sailor Jack Renton then found himself on a voyage into the heart of darkness. Escaping from his floating prison in an open whaleboat, Renton drifted for 2000 miles, only to be washed up on the shores of a Pacific island shunned by 19th-century mariners, Malaita in the Solomon Islands. There he was stripped of his clothes by headhunters and forced to 'go native' to survive. Initially a slave to their chief, Kabou, he eventually became the man's most trusted warrior and adviser. Renton's own account of his eight-year exile, published after he was rescued, remains the only authenticated account of a mental and physical ordeal that still haunts the imagination to this day. It caused a sensation at the time, though it is now clear that it airbrushed out most of the key events. Researching the Renton legend, Nigel Randell spent several years talking to the Malaitans and piecing together a very different account from Renton's sanitised version. The ultimate irony is that a man so keen to conceal his 'crimes' should have bequeathed their evidence - a necklace of 60 human teeth - to a collector who donated it to a national museum.
Author: Shankar Aswani
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Category : Headhunters
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: James A. Boutilier
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Category : Headhunters
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Author: Caroline Mytinger
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: K. B. Jackson
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Category : First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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