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#6012Z Upper Watut Gold Alluvials, New Guinea. Share certificate, issued 1935 285 x 215 mm Excellent condition. The Anga people (known as the Kukukuku on the remote Upper Watut River) first encountered Australian miners in 1922, when mining at the Koranga Creek gold field near Wau was commenced by Park and Nettleton. By 1936-7, when the British ethnographer Beatrice Blackwood carried out fieldwork among the fierce Kukukuku people, still only very few Europeans had ventured into the Upper Watut. 145 AUD