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		<title>Killer Whale and Crocodile (Film)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Marston has since the beginning of his career exhibited next to Sepik artists at Alcheringa Gallery. John&#8217;s explorations of his own rich artistic and cultural heritage paralleled a growing fascination with the tools, techniques, styles, materials, knowledge, stories, beliefs, and lifestyles of these carvers on the other side of the world. In 2006, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucas Tangun Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Lucas Tangun with his brilliant contemporary
interpretation of the Founding of the Pig Clan
(Photo: D. Lepsoe)&#160;
Lucas Tangun was born July 15, 1969, into the Nauwaia clan of the Iatmul people. He learned to carve from his father. Growing up in Tambanum Village in the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, he was exposed to many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Contemporary Sepik Art Deserves Your Attention</title>
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Jackson Timbin of Palembei Village paints a dance mask in his family&#8217;s distinctive style. The Timbin family is represented in this exhibition by Jackson&#8217;s elder brothers Michael and Otto. The finished mask is visible here. (Photo: Dan Lepsoe)
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Essay by Elaine Monds
Alcheringa Gallery
Sepik art has long captured the imagination of collectors. Sought after as much for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaua Gita Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: D. Lepsoe&#160;
Iatmul master carver Kaua Gita was born in Korogo Village on the Sepik River in 1964. He began to carve when he was fifteen, learning from his father and other carvers in the village. Korogo has a history of fine carving and strong ceremonial life. Its splendid haus tambaran (spirit house) was renowned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Marston Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: A. Holbrook
Coast Salish carver John Marston (Qap’u’luq) was born in 1978 into a family of exceptional artists in Ladysmith, British Columbia. He has worked with many other prominent Northwest Coast carvers, including Simon Charlie, Silas Coon, Shawn Karpes, Wayne Young, and his brother, Luke Marston. His career has also been shaped by careful study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teddy Balangu Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: D. Lepsoe&#160;
Teddy Balangu was born in 1961 in Palembei Village, where he has lived all his life. He is part of a large family of artists and has been traditionally trained to carve by his uncle. In 1995, he was one of twelve carvers selected to spend six months in residence at Stanford University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael and Otto Timbin Biographies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: D. Lepsoe&#160;
Otto Timbin (Iatmul), born in Palembei in 1967, is the eldest son of renowned master carver Joseph Timbin. Since the death of his father, he has become head of the family of five master carvers. Otto carves a wide range of traditional carvings, including dancing masks, roof finials, lime containers, and elegant walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claytus Yambon Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: D. Lepsoe&#160;
Claytus Yambon is Village Councillor and a master carver from Korogo in Papua New Guinea’s Middle Sepik region. He is of the Iatmul tribe. Uri, his grandfather’s brother, taught him to carve. Claytus has travelled much of the Sepik River, and has an extensive knowledge of the various styles and forms of Sepik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Deko Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: D. Lepsoe&#160;
Metal sculptor and painter Tom Deko was born January 4, 1965, in Bena Bena in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. After leaving school in 1980, he studied Visual Arts at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. In 1999, he was awarded a scholarship by the Commonwealth Society to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Origin of the Eagle and Crocodile Clans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story as told by Claytus Yambon in Korogo Village, May 2008:
Once upon a time, there were two good mates who lived together, worked together, and played together, enjoying each others&#8217; company all the time. Some things they did were virtuous, but others were mischievous. 
One time after hunting together, one mate asked, “How did you [...]]]></description>
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