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On Kiwai, the large island at the mouth of the Fly River, initiation was marked by the display of naturalistic, almost life-size figures of ancestral men and women. Their heads were virtually identical with the masks made on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. Small pendant figures from Kiwai were, however, extremely stylized and flat and were covered with a chevron pattern. Much the same facial design was used on canoe splashboards. Large figures were also carved on the coast along the river in a distinctive style in which faces have squared-off jaws. This style of face was repeated on ...(100 of 20297 words)