<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=093384503-16112006>In <EM>The Sky
People </EM>(1984) by John Emery, there are numerous references to "piccaninny
dawn" which I assume means something like the first light of dawn, before the
sun actually appears.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=093384503-16112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=093384503-16112006>Is this a version of
a normal TP expression? Has anyone heard "pikinini tulait" or something like
that? Or might it be some sort of Tok Masta?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=093384503-16112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=093384503-16112006>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don Niles</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Acting Director & Senior
Ethnomusicologist</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Institute of Papua New Guinea
Studies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Box 1432</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Boroko 111</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>PAPUA NEW GUINEA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>tel.: +675 325-4644</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>fax: +675 325-0531</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>email:
ipngs@global.net.pg</FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>--<BR>
No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>
Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR>
Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.6/535 - Release Date: 15/11/2006 15:47<BR>
</FONT> </P>