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- ↑ Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime, F. W. Cheshire Publishing Pty Ltd.
- ↑ Langness, L. L. (1970). "Kiki: Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime, A New Guinea Autobiography . Albert Maori Kiki". American Anthropologist. 72 (6): 1532–1533. doi: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00800 .
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