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...which reeds are forced up their noses and down their throats to bleed out the spirits of their mothers. Some tribal warriors still eat a slice of a dead victim's liver to absorb his magic. Barely out of the Stone Age, this primitive land, composed of Australian Papua and the United Nations trust territory of Northeast New Guinea, was last week nevertheless preparing itself for self-government...
HEAD HUNTERS OF PAPUA by Tony Saulnier. 309 pages. Crown. $7.50. A fascinating account of the progress of a French photographic expedition across the unmapped waist of Dutch New Guinea. The trip, through nightmarish forests and mountain ranges, took six months and yielded the first photographic record of a people frozen in a way of life that began far back in prehistory...
...self-government. They have set up a network of village schools, entrusted social legislation to a year-old, elected Council (16 Papuan, 12 Dutch members), and given natives administrative responsibility for more than half the area they control. The country now has its own national anthem, My Country, My Papua, and a red-white-and-blue flag. At a cost of $1,500,000, Dutch officials have organized a West Papuan Volunteer Corps (motto: I PERSEVERE) whose first 220 volunteers will complete basic training in June. The native hunters are reluctant to exchange blowguns and loincloths for Mauser rifles...
...middle of a crowd of weapon-waving natives. But the Sydney Morning Herald took a less lighthearted view. "This outburst of savagery," said an irate editorial, "should provide a convincing answer to those members of the United Nations Trustee Council who last month voted for immediate independence for Papua and New Guinea...
Territory of Papua & New Guinea