[ RadSafe ] Yellowcake facepaint in PNG ?

[Dan McCarn]

Hi Franz:

I have no knowledge of that, but pitchblende and other uranium-bearing
minerals were used as glass and porcelain dyes for centuries, sometimes
associated with miner's problems with disease in Czech Republic.

Dan ii

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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Franz Schönhofer <
franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:

> was ,
> Forgive my limited knowledge of ethnology, which I always have been
> interested in. So I want to comment strictly on the basis of common sense
> which is obviously not used in the majority of press comments.
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> To my knowledge yellow cake is produced after many steps of purification.
> Interesting that yellow cake was produced hundreds of years ago by natives.
> As well as "uranium salts".....
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> Anything else? According to hearsay our ancestors used among others
> granitic rocks with uranium and thorium inclusions to kill mammouths. So it
> has been proved beyond doubt that radiation caused that radiation
> he exstinction of mammouths! Unfortunately Greeenpeace was not yet
> invented and was not able to save the mammouths.
>
> Anybody disagreeing with my explanation? Please send it to your nearest
> Greenpeace adress or to me. Do not forget to label it as a research of an
> "indipendent" researcher.
>
> Please forgive me for disturbing antinuclear fantasties, but I am so tired
> of all those absurd messages in the mass media. I wish you a nice weekend.
>
> Franz
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> ..---Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jaro Franta
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:08 AM 0
> To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List'
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Yellowcake facepaint in PNG ?
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> Looking for someone in this group who could help confirm -- or deny -- a
> claim regarding yellow Uranium pigment being used by indigenous tribesmen (
> the Huli "Wigmen") in Papua New Guinea (PNG), for ceremonial fayet5ainting,
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> as per the following links:
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> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1011953-papua-new-guinea-wigmen-
> use-uraniam-face-paint-photos.html
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> http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/10/papua-new-guinea/   (see text near
> bottom of page)
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> General reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huli_people
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> I know that uranium salts were used as pigments by south-western American
> tribesmen for face & body paint, but that was hundreds of years ago.
> It would be amazing, if true, that uranium face paint is still being used
> today, in PNG.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jaro Franta
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