New Guinea Culture Art

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The Abau are the western generally public living on the Sepik River. The first name was useful by bilingual person; it is not consumed by the Abau public. It might be inflicted with originated from the kinship stretch pro their ancestor, Abau it earnings Green River is inappropriate as an ethnonym since it is the first name of a waterway current primarily through non Abau public territory and of a government patrol placement virtually the boundaries of three unrelated language clusters.

Abau fit in to the Sepik-Ramu phylum of Non Austronesian furthermore renowned as "Papuan" languages and is illustrated by tonemes. The language generally meticulously correlated to Abau is Iwam, which is oral by public living along the Sepik and the decrease of May River, downstream from the Abau, Iwam and Abau be inflicted with 30 percent cognate terms on vocabulary.

Almost nothing is renowned of the prehistory of the area. A small marble head unearthed in a village virtually the Green River patrol placement was not recognizable as an Abau artifact. The names of 1990 and 2000 their village based on cencus units are trying to correlate with Abau villages. The bilingual person estimated ended more than 4000 public based on in rank in the in the dead of night 70s.  The Abau some time ago lived in generous convergence houses close to the banks of rivers and surrounded by food backyard.