Island Region of Papua New Guinea

Kundus, common instruments throughout much of Papua New Guinea, are regionally important only on New Britain and the southern part of New Ireland, where they accompany tumbuan-stylc dances; they occur in scattered localities on Manus and in North Solomons Province. This pattern of distribution suggests that kundus spread from New Britain, but languages of coastal West Sepik Province, the Wuvulu-Aua and Kaniet islands of Manus Province , and Ponape, Kosrae, and the Marshall...