Word: malay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
When the Portuguese landed on the south coast of the island in 1526, they called it Papua, after a Malay word that described the fuzzy hair of the inhabitants. When the Spanish claimed the north coast 19 years later, they called it New Guinea, because they thought the natives resembled those on the Guinea Coast of Africa. Since the two territories became jointly administered by Australia in 1949, they have gone by the hybrid mouthful of Papua New Guinea. The region is scheduled to become a single, self-governing nation in December, and the search...
Reporters who flew to the Cocos Islands found the feudalism real enough. On Saturday mornings, for instance, Clunies-Ross meets with six Malay headmen to dispense whatever justice is called for (the most common sentence is two weeks' work without pay). "We have no need of courts as you know them," he told newsmen. "Crime is hardly a problem. In fact, last year we had two thefts, which took up only 45 minutes of our time...
...fishing and one for leisure. Education is voluntary, but "school days may end abruptly," notes Clunies-Ross. "Anyone who doesn't respond or is lazy gets sacked." Children go to work at 14, usually as apprentices in a trade. Clunies-Ross said that he did not want the Malay children to have an Australian standard of education because it would lead to a brain drain...
...children. When couples marry they are given a two-bedroom asbestos house. The Clunies-Rosses themselves do not observe such strictures, however; the ruler and his English-born wife Daphne have five children and live in a two-story mansion, cared for by five house girls dressed in Malay costumes with hibiscus blooms in their long black hair...