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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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A Seventh-Day Adventist mission in New Guinea has ended cannibalistic practices among a group near the Dutch border, where they formerly ate the dead to preserve their strength, including babies and chiefs, and ground bones for meal. (Pastor H. White)
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SYDNEY, (AP) - A New Guinea mission claims it has weaned a group of cannibals away from their age-old custom of eating all their dead. Pastor H. White, Seventh-Day Adventist Mission Administrator for the Coral Sea area, told of these New Guineans, who, he said, formerly ate bodies to perpetuate the strength of the dead. The former cannibals, he said in an interview, live in a recently opened area of New Guinea near the Dutch border.
"They used to eat everybody from young babies to old chiefs," he said. "Not only did they eat the flesh, but they used to grind the bones up for bone meal."
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New Guinea Near The Dutch Border
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cannibal feasts ended; group weaned away from eating their dead
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A New Guinea mission has weaned a group of cannibals from their custom of eating all their dead to perpetuate the strength of the dead. The former cannibals live in a recently opened area near the Dutch border. They used to eat everybody from young babies to old chiefs, eating the flesh and grinding bones for bone meal.