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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 564022, member: 2844&quot;]Absolutely Papuan, not Asian.</p><p>The eastern part of the island of New Guinea is an independent country under the name Papua New Guinea, short PNG.</p><p>The western part is occupied by Indonesia, an Asian country, and is known by the Indonesian name of Irian Barat, meaning West Irian.* That is why western Papuan art is often referred to as Asian, and sometimes all Papuan art is. It is of course Oceanic or Pacific, not Asian.</p><p><br /></p><p>* You can still occasionally come across the 1960s politicized name of Irian Jaya, Indonesian for Irian victory/victorious. The name is not considered to be Papua-friendly since the West Papuans were preparing for independence from colonisation at the time. In the 1960s they went from one coloniser to the next. The politicized name is best forgotten.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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