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Guinea experts cry foul on tribal exhibits

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A stunning exhibition of South Pacific artefacts sheds light on the world of primitive people, at the San Francisco's new fine-arts museum. The display included about 400 specimens from Papua New Guinea with adorned human skulls from the days of head-hunting, masks and shields portraying tribal spirits, and life-size carvings steeped in fertility rites.

Author: Dalton, Rex
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
Papua New Guinea, Exhibitions, Antiquities, Art, Primitive, Primitive art

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Oil refinery site may be home to ancient relics

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The Gila River valley in Yuma country, Arizona owned by the US Bureau of Reclamation, plans to sell 1,200 hectares of its to Phoenix-based Arizona Clean Fuels for construction of the $2.5billion oil refinery. The irrigation-board officials are becoming frustrated with the length of time taken to do the studies by the archeologists.

Author: Dalton, Rex
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
Strategy & planning, Facilities & equipment, Arizona, Planning, Environmental aspects, Buildings and facilities, Petroleum refineries, Company business planning, Valleys

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