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Duk-Duk

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DUK-DUK, a secret society of the New Britain Archipelago north-east of New Guinea, in the South Pacific. The society has religious and political as well as social objects.

See "Duk-Duk and other Customs or Forms of Expression of the Melanesian's Intellectual Life," by Graf von Pfeil (Journ. of Anthrop. Instit. vol. 27, p. 181) ; E. A. Weber, The Duk-Dizks (1929).