bus kanaka

bus kanaka
a) An uncivilised person; a person who follows a traditional rather than modern lifestyle.

... for some more sophisticated coastal people there was merely the shame at being led by a bush kanaka, ...

b) An uncivilised person; a person who follows a traditional rather than modern lifestyle.

Fuyuge men recount with humor their initial encounters with life in Port Moresby during the 1950s. They speak of travelling to the coast in their bark-cloths and realising upon their arrival that they were inappropriately dressed: “We immediately felt bus kanaka [wild, uncivilized].”


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