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- noun Plural form of
New Caledonian .
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The gods of the New Caledonians are their ancestors, whose relics they keep and idolize.
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Australia strongly supports the Noumea Accord, aimed at building a peaceful future for all New Caledonians, under which New Caledonia and France have committed to a democratic and progressive transfer of autonomous powers.
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Many New Caledonians seek education in Australia, or benefit from scholarships administered through the Consulate-General in Noumea for New Caledonians and for young people in French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna.
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At the end of that time, New Caledonians will decide whether to move to full independence.
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At the end of the transitional period, New Caledonians who have resided continuously in New Caledonia since 1988
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The Marquesans used to hold the mouth and nose of a dying man, in order to keep him in life by preventing his soul from escaping; the same custom is reported of the New Caledonians; and with the like intention the Bagobos of the Philippine Islands put rings of brass wire on the wrists or ankles of their sick.
Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul. § 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul 1922
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The Marquesans used to hold the mouth and nose of a dying man, in order to keep him in life by preventing his soul from escaping; the same custom is reported of the New Caledonians; and with the like intention the Bagobos of the Philippine Islands put rings of brass wire on the wrists or ankles of their sick.
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The New Caledonians, according to Foley, cohabit in the quadrupedal manner, and so also the Papuans of New
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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The New Caledonians, according to Foley (_Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie_, November 6, 1879), only like the smells of meat and fish which are becoming "high," like _popoya_, which smells of fowl manure, and _kava_, of rotten eggs.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Turner, 339-342; material culture of the New Caledonians, 339; their burial customs, the skulls and nails of the dead preserved and used to fertilise the yam plantations, 339 _sq. _; worship of ancestors and prayers to the dead, 340; festivals in honour of the dead, 340 _sq.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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