No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1956-2016

STORIES My mother will always be with me, I have never forgotten anything she taught me, but some of these things I can never reveal. Sometimes I sing the old songs to my children. When I sing them the charm that draws the wild pig and the cassowary towards me in the bush they listen to the tune but they do not understand, for they do not speak my mother’s language. But every time I repeat the sacred words tears come to my eyes. ALBERT MAORI KIKI Kiki, Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime: A New Guinea Autobiography , Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, p.85.