kau kaun.
In New Guinea, the sweet potato.
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1937 Official Handbk. New Guinea v. 435 In Morobe District, taro, sweet potatoes (kau-kau), sugar-cane and bananas furnish the main food, supplemented by yam, coco-nut and sago in certain areas.
1957 M. West Kundu xiv. 166 They returned laden with taro and kau-kau and sugar-cane.
1964 Economist 30 May 985/1 Sago and kau kau provide a basic if poor quality diet [in Papua].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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