Say halo to Kirk Huffman
An anthropologist and ethnologist, Kirk’s long list of accolades includes Honorary Curator of the National Museum at Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, (Curator 1977- end of 1989); Research Associate, Australian Museum, Sydney; Member of Scientific Committee, Museum of Tahiti and the Islands, Puna’auia, Tahiti, French Polynesia; Honorary associate, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, and corresponding Member, Institute of Advanced Studies, (University of) Nantes, Nantes, France.
Since 1973 he has spent just over 18 years as an anthropologist in Vanuatu and in 1974 was field advisor, guide and interpreter for Sir David Attenborough and film crew in the then New Hebrides and the Solomons while producing the classic BBC film ‘Man blong Kastom’.
He has kastom family on the islands of Malakula and Pentecost in Vanuatu, and has four traditional Vanuatu titles from traditional rituals on those islands and Tongoa.
He wrote the Bislama history of Blackbirding section in the 1997 Vanuatu Cultural Centre publication associated with an exhibition on the topic.
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