Museum Exhibits in Port Moresby

Suggest a Longstanding Tradition

of a Large Flying Creature in PNG
Text Box: Although these wooden carvings do not closely resemble any known pterosaur, the artist or artists themselves may not have observed the creature depicted. Artistic license should be taken into account when an artist creates while listening to another person’s verbal description. Some aspects of these carvings correlate with accounts of sightings of the “ropen” (also known as “duwas” and “indava”) creatures seen in coastal and inland areas of Papua New Guinea, including Umboi Island.

Special thanks to the Holiday Inn in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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photographs Copyright 2004 Garth Guessman

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Text Box: These carvings correlate with the ropen and/or pterosaurs in several ways: 1) hair or fur (all three photos) 2) reptilian-like tail (upper right) 3) wings (upper right) 4) ferocious nature (upper left) 5) bumps run down back (upper left) 6) reptilian ear (left)

Before dismissing the living-pterosaur interpretation of the origin of these wooden carvings, consider the following web sites about living pterosaurs:

Testimony of a World War II veteran:

Duane Hodgkinson’s “pterodactyl”

 

Testimony of an Australian couple:

the giant creature flying over Perth

 

Testimony of Gideon Koro of Umboi

Island in Papua New Guinea

 

Testimony of the American David

Woetzel, from New Hampshire:

the bioluminescent glow of the ropen

Credibility of Umboi Island

eyewitnesses (Gideon, etc)

 

Links to sites on living-pterosaur

investigations (and related subjects)

 

Why many believe in pterosaur

extinctions (and why to disbelieve)

 

Quotations from the book Searching

for Ropens (living pterosaurs in

Papua New Guinea)