Sepik
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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East Sepik province Governor Allan Bird posted on Facebook Sunday that initial estimates show the earthquake had destroyed about 1,000 homes in the area which was already “dealing with widespread flooding” from earlier in March.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
In the origin story of the Iatmul peoples, who live along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, the world was a primal sea.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022
Born in 1936 in Rabaul, Somare was still a child when he moved with his family back to his father’s ancestral home of Karau village in East Sepik.
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2021
Efron had previously posted images on social media showing him in a canoe on PNG’s Sepik River and traveling to Yanchan Village to see a traditional skin-cutting ceremony.
From Reuters • Dec. 29, 2019
He tells me a local creation myth suggests the Sepik people descend from the crocodile and emerged from the river as humans to walk on land.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2018
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