In Baffin Island, a cult leader named Neakoteah threatened to kill unbelievers. When … W. H. MacFarlane, who, before retiring in 1933, served for 17 years in the Torres Strait Islands as a Church of England missionary. An inquest ot inquiry cincludes in September 1872 that An Aboriginal woman called Cassey was shot by the native Police. Narcisse, as further research revealed, was a 12-year old cabin boy of a French ship wrecked off Rossel Island in the Louisiade Archipelago in the Milne Bay District in September, 1858. Take the so-called shell money system of Rossel Island…, which consists of twenty-odd denominations of shells, with no exact equivalences of value and a delimited arena in which they can be used — it offers only the faintest semblance of a market economy (the shells are usable, e.g., for bride price, the purchase of pigs, houses and canoes, but not for food or manual labour). Cannibalism: When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged : The Salt For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. Take the so-called shell money system of Rossel Island…, which consists of twenty-odd denominations of shells, with no exact equivalences of value and a delimited arena in which they can be used — it offers only the faintest semblance of a market economy (the shells are usable, e.g., for bride price, the purchase of pigs, houses and canoes, but not for food or manual labour). Dear Twitpic Community - thank you for all the wonderful photos you have taken over the years. The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more.Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Search All 1 Records in Our Collections. Rossel Island (named after de Rossel, a senior officer on the French expedition of d'Entrecasteaux, 1791-1793; also known as Yela) is the easternmost island of the Louisiade Archipelago, which itself is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.Tree Islet is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north-west, while Wule Island is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) westward. The Chinese passenger of the St. Paul, who was rescued by the steamer Styx, and arrived on Tuesday, has furnished us with the following account of the massacre … An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Philippines vows justice for victims of Maguidanao massacre Jun 2, 2011, 6:59 GMT Manila - The Philippine government on Thursday vowed to ensure that the people behind the 2009 killing of at least 57 people, the country's worst political massacre, would be punished.

MASSACRE OF THE CHINESE PASSENGERS AT ROSSEL ISLAND.

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