sentences:  He stressed there his Sepik identity, despite being born in Rabaul on the islands and far from the Sepik, but he portrays his time as a child in Sepik villages as decisive in forming his personality.His father brought him there to the village of Karau in the Murik Lakes region  when Somare's mother separated from him.Somare pays elaborate attention to his initiation and the role of matrilineal descent is also evident there ”Our mother’s brothers” receive for example the initiates after their ordeal.