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DESPITE a history of colonization, Papua New Guinea's (PNG) unique architecture is evident in its Parliament, National Museum and international airport buildings. Very impressive is the newly constructed International Convention Center by the sea in Port Moresby which incorporates in its modern architectural design features of the distinct PNG indigenous art. It was inaugurated in time for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum hosted for the first time by PNG, with heads of states and governments from Asia and the Pacific attending. Their art forms are manifest, too, in their totem poles, tribal masks, kundu drums, tapas, clay potteries, kina necklaces and toea armshells, and multipurpose string bags (bilum). Even symbols on canoes and carvings in their yam houses are constant reminders of the oneness-of-all in nature.
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