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Long ago, the same friend who knitted the bedsocks gave me a great craft object, an old New Guinea bilum.
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As long as people made craft objects for their own use, they were like my bilum: functional, durable and dignified.
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Long ago, the same friend who knitted the bedsocks gave me a great craft object, an old New Guinea bilum.
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As long as people made craft objects for their own use, they were like my bilum: functional, durable and dignified.
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When the bilum is empty, it hangs slack and weighs no more than a few grammes, but it easily expands to hold a baby, a piglet or a hundredweight of taro.
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When the bilum is empty, it hangs slack and weighs no more than a few grammes, but it easily expands to hold a baby, a piglet or a hundredweight of taro.
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Long ago, the same friend who knitted the bedsocks gave me a great craft object, an old New Guinea bilum.
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When the bilum is empty, it hangs slack and weighs no more than a few grammes, but it easily expands to hold a baby, a piglet or a hundredweight of taro.
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As long as people made craft objects for their own use, they were like my bilum: functional, durable and dignified.
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