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The Pacific Linguistics
Logo
In 1998 the Editorial Board
decided that the appearance of Pacific Linguistics publications
should be updated. Ian Scales, a former graphic designer and
at that time a PhD scholar in the RSPAS Department of Anthropology,
offered his services to Pacific Linguistics, and produced
the basic cover design used from 1998 to 2001, together with
Pacific Linguistics' new logo, shown at the top of these pages.
It appears on the spine and title page of every Pacific Linguistics
publication.
The logo design is based on
one small panel of a poro batuna from Vella Lavella
Island in the western Solomon Islands. This artefact is made
from a plaque of fossilised giant clam shell (Tridacna
sp.), carved into an elaborate fretwork design. It is held,
with others of its kind, at the Australian Museum (A8517)
in Sydney. These artefacts were made in the western Solomon
Islands, probably between one and two hundred years ago.
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