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	Papua New Guinea stilt house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Papua New Guinea stilt house is a unique architecture constructed by Motuans, a native inhabitant in Papua New Guinea.
		The mountainous part of the country is called the Highlands and the low land part which meets the sea is called the Coastal region.
		The Motuans live in villages along the southern coastal area of Papua New Guinea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_stilt_house (378 words)

	Arts and Culture
		This is a form of barter trade where the Motuans traded Clay Pots for Sago with villagers along the Gulf coastline.
		The Motuan (men) sail westwards during the south-easterly winds known locally as the "Lahara winds".
		The contest is as old as the festival itself and its inclusion is not because of modern influences.
	www.ncdc.gov.pg /arts.htm (1084 words)

	Port Moresby Board
		January 18 2006, 11:27 AM get your facts right...it is an insult to ppeople of tatana (i am one) when you call it a settlement...when infact we are the natural and rightful inhabitants of that island.
		I am not a Motuan but I respect these people for the very fact that I earn a living here in their land, and they don't go around asking for compensation like some of our own people do for every tree or plant that has been cut down in the name of development.
		Motuans do not deserve such rubbish that you want to portray of a people that are peaceful.
	www.network54.com /Forum/210627/thread/1137393132/pure+Motu (910 words)

	Viewpoint
		Today the Motuan household still revolves around its age-old cultures and customs of haoda (fishing), labana (hunting), uma (gardening) to dava kara (bride price) but it is also in danger of being overwhelmed by the influences of ice cream culture.
		The Hiri tradition grew out of the trade between the Motuans and the Gulf people and our adoption by the village was in a sense, a continuation of the friendship the great double-hulled lakatois had carried over the western horizons with the south-east laurabada winds for centuries.
		Clay pots were a prized possession in the motuan household and the Hiri trade centred on the exchange of pots for sago.
	www.postcourier.com.pg /20020920/weekend07 (1735 words)

	Non Airline Transport FAQ's
		What was the traditional name of the chopsticks used by Motuan woman to eat whilst their husbands were away on the Hiri?
		A lagatoi or multi-hulled canoe was used to sail from Motuan villages to the Gulf region and back.
		The trip and subsequent trips were necessary, as traditionally during these times there was usually a drought along the Motuan coastline.
	www.michie.net /png_faqs/06181259_1.shtml (1911 words)

	Gabe v Jack Clunn and Pacific Gold Studios Pty Ltd [1995] PNGLR 153 (2 November 1995)
		The defence of unliklihood of harm (s 14, Defamation Act Ch 293), whilst not pursued on liability was taken up, in a sense, by Pacific Gold, on the question of the extent of hurt to the plaintiff.
		If that were the case, his choice of Kamea in a Motuan context coupled with the obscenities in the song leave me in little doubt that there has been contemptuous disregard of the real possibility of an association with somebody in Elevala and that contemptuous disregard is blame worthy.
		In my view the damages which the plaintiff here is entitled to recover, exceed those previous, for the plaintiff is a Rahobada and of importance in Motuan society which is entitled to have its custom recognised and protected when affected by outsiders.
	www.worldlii.org /pg/cases/PNGLR/1995/153.html (2482 words)

	Port Moresby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was named in honour of his father Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.
		The Motuan people of the area now known as Port Moresby, traded their pots for sago, other food and canoe logs, sailing from Hanuabada and other villages, built on silts above the waters of the bay.
		To the Motuans, the Hiri was not only an economic enterprise but they also confirmed their identity as a tribe because of the long and dangerous voyages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Moresby (821 words)

	Pacific Islands
		Papua New Guinea’s bride price system, a traditional practice that commits the groom to pay a price to the relatives of the bride for her hand in marriage, is very much alive in the country.
		The Motuans, the local inhabitants of land on which Port Moresby City is situated and their relatives from nearby coastal villages, are known for paying high bride prices.
		As a bride price tradition among the Motuans and elsewhere, the practice requires the extended family, close relatives and clan of the groom to contribute towards his bride price payment.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pm122002/pmdefault.php?urlarticleid=0038 (953 words)

	Active Volcanoes : Manam and the people
		Manam Islanders boading the Motuan Chief in the evacuation exercise.
		AS THE men, women and children walked to the MV Motuan Chief an elderly man came down, stood at the wharf and looked back towards his Island and began crying.
		It was the wailing of a man whose heart had been torn out by the fact he would be leaving the place of his ancestors, the graves of his loved ones and the place where he had for all his life called home.
	www.vulkaner.no /v/volcan/manamhelp.html (842 words)

	Papua New Guinea stilt houses
		Life along the Southern Coastal area, especially among the group of people who are known as the Motuans, live slightly similar lives to one another.
		For example the language they speak is Motu, except you can distinguish the area a person is from by the dialect of the language he speaks.
		The Motuans live in villages along the southern coastal area of PNG.
	www.michie.net /pnginfo/stilt.html (791 words)

	Letters page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The public is well aware that Mr Hitolo is a respected Motuan who has served with great distinction in recognition of which the Ombudsman Appointments Committee made him an Ombudsman in 1998.
		The current Chief Ombudsman, Ila Geno, is also a Motuan with a distinctive record of service in the PNG police force.
		Although he may not have the educational background of former Chief Ombudsmen like Sir Charles Maino and Simon Pentanu, Mr Ila is reputed to be a law and order man. He has brought with him to the Ombudsman Commission several of his former subordinate officers in the police such as John Toguata.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0209/letter3.htm (318 words)

	Papers 10: appendices
		Their livelihood was based on hunting, gardening, gathering food and a traditional exchange system with the Motuans especially from Hanuabada.
		The people are predominantly Motuan but a few Koitabu have migrated from Baruni due to intermarriages.
		Motuan men were discouraged from marrying Koitabu women and, for there own safety, kept to their own group and lived over the sea.
	www.unesco.org /csi/pub/papers2/png14.htm (2655 words)

	Crampton et al.-Clarence Series revision
		In addition, a middle Motuan tuff bed in the Motu Falls section has yielded a zircon U-Pb age of 101.6 ± 0.2 Ma, and an upper Ngaterian basalt flow in the Seymour section has yielded a plagioclase Ar/Ar age of 96.1 ± 0.6 Ma.
		The older of these dates allows, for the first time, direct age correlation of Clarence Series stages that are based on marine strata in eastern New Zealand, with non-marine rocks in the west.
		The base of the Motuan is defined using the lowest occurrence of the bivalve Aucellina euglypha in the same section.
	www.rsnz.org /publish/nzjgg/2004/006.php (422 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Celebrating Father's Day - the Motuan village way
		THE smiles on the gentlemen's clean shaven faces accompanied by the unmistakable glint in their eyes - only men kne about - could have continued for eternity if only The Creator himself decided not to end that moment.
		All in white and fl, a few in their ties, some in their 50's and 20s, the men commemorated in a unique and traditional fashion the typical Motuan village style the Father's Day - an event celebrated last Sunday (7/09/03) by thousands of fathers nationwide.
		And they would not have worn the smiles on their faces that day if it wasn't for the energetic mothers and daughters who have willingly prepared for the special occassion.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/printthread.php?t=8278&pp=40 (714 words)

	Port Moresby (Town)
		Juxtaposed to the metropolis is the partly stilt-based Hanuabada Village, home of the traditional Motuan landowners of Moresby.
		Port Moresby is made up of a complex traditional society formed upon historical bonds between the traditional landowners, the coastal Motuans and the inland Koitabu, through intermarriages and trade which have been occurring since the mid-nineteenth century.
		Today the Motu-Koitabu have sacrificed much of their heritage to the influence of Europeans and Polynesian missionaries, who have been visiting the port since the 1780s.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/portmoresbytown.html (521 words)

	Nation page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Authorities dispatched a vessel, the Motuan Chief, to the island yesterday afternoon to evacuate over 2,000 islanders who had refused to move earlier or who had returned recently.
		The Motuan Chief is expected to evacuate over 2,000 islanders, including 1,115 alone from Baliau village, the biggest village on the island.
		Mr Lavida said quite a number of resettled people on the mainland have moved back to the island after an earlier evacuation and now are pleading to be evacuated back to the mainland following the recent volcanic activities.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0131/nation1.htm (563 words)

	Lesson1
		Therefore it is only true to say that the Wuvulu counting system uses base 5 which corresponds to one hand.
		In the Motuan culture the counting system is base 10 but every ten has a name of its own.
		Below is a table of the Motuan counting system of fish.
	www.uog.ac.pg /glec/teaching/zepp/lesson1.htm (768 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		(John) And bride price in Motuan custom would not normally be paid - or given - paid really is the wrong word - but bride price would not normally be given for quite some months afterwards.
		Because the girl has to demonstrate that she's going to be a good wife.
		You know, it's not payment - certainly not in the Motuan area.
	www.mcnt.org.au /oral_hist/ingram_06.html (815 words)

	Drum Drum - Projects
		Through the influence of missionaries and modernisation, the Dubu from Gabagaba village was destroyed in the early 60s, which was the beginning of the end of a long tradition of dance and drumming.
		This performance of "DUBU" celebrates in the memory of the Dubu and the importance of its function in Motuan society.
		Many of the dances and contemporary songs in this performance are based on musics that were originally performed at the Dubu.
	www.drumdrum.com.au /projects.htm (404 words)

	Headhunt Revisited - About the Expedition
		The people of Elevala are from the Koitabu group, and those from Hanuabada are Motuan.
		Desmond is the grandson of Ahuia, the Motuan man wearing the striking headdress in "Heera," our project's signature emblem.
		He and Ahuia's great granddaughter, Gertrude, spoke at length of what they could remember about the man who was a messenger for then Governor Sir Hubert Murray.
	www.headhuntrevisited.org /journal/index3.shtml (3872 words)

	Oceania Ethnographica Oceanic Art Historic Photographs Vintage postcards New Guinea Motu woman tattoos photograph ...
		For a discussion on the photography of Barton, a colonial administrator, and Rev. Harold Dauncey amongst the Motu people of Delena in the late 19th and early years of the 20th century, see Macintyre & McKenzie, Focal length as an analogue of cultural distance, in Edwards (ed) Anthropology and Photography 1860-1920, pp 160-3.
		Tattooing for Motuan people was associated with feminine attraction, fertility and marriageability.
		The patterns that decorated a girl's thighs, buttocks and pudenda were on public view only during the initiation ceremony, and thereafter were seen exclusively by her husband.
	www.oceania-ethnographica.com /archiveB002.htm (154 words)

	Sunnyside Records: Artists: Aaron Choulai
		His early years were spent playing in the village, fishing, eating mangos, coconuts and mud crabs.
		At an early age Aaron was exposed to a wide range of music from traditional Motuan mourning chants, to the songs sung around the table at Passover, to Beethoven, Brahms and Bach played to him by his grandfather.
		At the age of 12, Aaron was living in Melbourne, and discovered the blues.
	www.sunnysiderecords.com /artist.php?id=65 (343 words)

	Scuba Safaris - Papua New Guinea - Land Tours - Port Moresby
		The main city is built on a peninsula at the entrance to Fairfax Harbour, where Paga Hill offers the best views of the city, harbour and reef beyond.
		From the hill you can see Hanuabada, a stilt village that was the original settlement of the Motuan people before the city was established.
		Stilt villages were built because colonial powers taxed houses, but only if they were on land, so the resourceful villagers moved their houses onto the water to avoid paying taxes!
	www.scuba-safaris.com /pages/destination/papua/landtours/papua_new_guinea_landtours_port_moresby.html (711 words)

	Viewpoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		You must note that Hiri tradition and Hiri trade are two totally and entirely different entities altogether — each with its own genuine beginning and existence.
		Hiri tradition began when Motuan people began living together in communal groups.
		While Hiri tradition is synonymous with all Motuan villages, the same cannot be said about Hiri trade because its origin can only be attributed to one single person from just one village — not a board of councillors from all Motuan villages.
	www.postcourier.com.pg /20050204/view06.htm (332 words)

	Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority - National Capital District
		Port Moresby was named by Captain John Moresby in 1873.
		The following year a mission station was established at the village of Hanuabada, a traditional Papuan village and home to the Motuan people.
		During the Second World War, the small town of Port Moresby was transformed into a large military camp, accommodating tens of thousands of troops during the Pacific campaigns.
	www.pngtourism.org.pg /png/export/sites/TPA/provinces/ncd/ncd.htm (1017 words)

	Federation and Meteorology, Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service, page 398
		He lived in a 'boy-house', a small one-roomed hut immediately behind the house.
		Havi was a typical Motuan from eastern Papua—small, slight in build and light brown in colour.
		Sometimes on Sunday afternoons he would invite his native friends to his boy-house where they would sing to Hawaiian tunes which Havi played on his guitar.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /fam/0398.html (500 words)

	Sounds Online: Sounds Of Polynesia
		In my family's area there are certain categories that kundu beats fit in to, which usually reflects the function of the dance they accompany.
		Kitoro - courtship dance (6/8 feel) Motu mavaru - motuan dance, Hiri Moale - celebratory dance with songs relating to the Hiri trade voyage celebration.
		Airi's grandfathers Boga Kwarara, Kokoa Kwarara and Kwarara Kwarara were his teachers of the Kundu and all the Motuan songs and dances from Gabagaba.
	www.soundsonline.com /sophtml/details.phtml?sku=ZG303 (2599 words)

	Mesozoic Marine Monsters of Mangahouanga
		Discovered by world-renowned New Zealand geologist Harold Wellman in 1954, Fleming (et al) note that the Tinui, (Wairarapa) or "Gentle Annie Ichthyosaur" was dated to the Motuan Stage, Makirikiri Formation.
		Material from the two localities was also established as having come from the Makirikiri Formation, and therefore also dated from the (Motuan) stage.
		The only Cretaceous ichthyosaurian genus known is noted by Long (1998) (and further detailed in McGowan (1972)) is Platypterygius, and therefore may be "tentatively referred" to this genus.
	www.oceansofkansas.com /nz-aus.html (2899 words)

	Papers 10: data
		By all accounts, Motu Koitabu life during pre-contact time was well organized.
		People had natural resources that they extracted from their land, and the clay for the Motuan cooking and storage pots is one example.
		This enabled the people to take part in economic activities such as the annual Hiri trading voyage, as well as trade between Motu and Koitabu, and with the Hula people.
	www.unesco.org /csi/pub/papers2/png12.htm (724 words)

	Port Moresby, Southern Region, Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The site of the original settlement, this is a favourite lookout spot for visitors, with fine views over Port Moresby and its harbour.
		A Motuan stilt village close to the city centre, which retains some of the character of the Motuan tradition.
		This colourful daily market is a great place to browse for bargains.
	www.jasons.com /001758,PNG,SOUTHREG,PORTMORE,PORTMORE,pg,1,0.mel (796 words)

	Johnston: A Megastrobilus Belonging to . . .
		A Megastrobilus Belonging to the Genus Araucarites from the Upper Motuan (Upper Albian), Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand
		Abstract A single, well preserved, araucarian megastrobilus, belonging to the genus Araucarites, from the upper Motuan (Late Albian) of Wairarapa is discussed in general terms.
		PDF file of entire paper: medium quality (3232K); (scanned from paper original: notes about this process)
	www.rsnz.org /publish/nzjb/1971/6.php (112 words)

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