[Mihalic] retskin

[Mnmacd at aol.com]

Retskin was commonly used for white people in the Erave area of the Southern 
Highlands when I lived there in the 1970s and visited from Goroka in the early 
1980s.  The last time I was there in 2001 I did not notice if it was being 
used.  Retskin was also used for local people of light color.  The corresponding 
word in Kewa was wepiali.

Mary

Mary N. MacDonald 
611 Beattie Street 
Syracuse, NY 13224 
Tel 315 449-2107

Religious Studies Department
Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY 13214
Tel 315 445-4364
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