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...here. I just helped them mail them," he says. The skulls were not genuine but imitations, he insists, so there could be no loss of cultural heritage and no crime committed. "There are almost no old ones left," he says. "You may see one only in the Port Moresby museum. These are copies. Necrophiles buy them...
...team, it is all but impossible to bring legal action against overseas buyers; they struggle even to track down the local suppliers and dealer. Museum enforcement officer Sebastian Haraha is frustrated by their lack of results. One dealer slipped into p.n.g. from neighboring Indonesia, he says, and managed to take three truckloads of artifacts back across the border without inspection by any authority. "I was trying to catch up with him, but every place I went to I just missed him," says Haraha, fanning out a wad of photographs of items he is attempting to trace."We don't know...
...Body Snatchers - came to die. "Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some 600 feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars," he wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin at the British Museum...
...These days Vailima is itself a museum, and literary curiosity beats a path to its door. The house Stevenson and his American wife Fanny carved into the mountainside recently made it into Patricia Schulz's bestselling 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, and each year up to 12,000 Stevensonians, tourists and scholars climb the hill to peer into the world of a man who has kidnapped the imagination of generations. Devoted pilgrims will hike a further hour to the author's final resting place on the peak of Mount Vaea. Here, under the breadfruit trees, they...
...says Samoan-born writer Albert Wendt. But somewhere along the way, the writer got lost. "When we came to the scene, the memory of Tusitala was becoming almost mythical," says RLS Preservation Foundation president James Winegar, a former Mormon missionary from the U.S. who helped set up the Vailima museum with aloe vera millionaire Rex Maugham in 1994. Not only the memory of the writing had faded - Vailima, too, had seen better days. After a 1990 cyclone all but destroyed what had become the official residence of Samoa's head of state, the foundation assumed responsibility for Vailima's restoration...