The Ogea are a Papuan people from Madang Province

Madang Province

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 of Papua New Guinea

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 speaking the Ogea language. They live in the four village

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s of Garima, Dogia, Balama, and Erima, bounded by the Gogol

Gogol River

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 and Yawor rivers, and Astrolabe Bay

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. The first recorded contact with the Ogea by a European

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 was by the Russia

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n scientist

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, Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai, who described visits to several Ogea villages between 1871 and 1883 in his diary. Ogea has at least one Russian loanword, "sapora" ('axe, hatchet') evidence perhaps that Miklukho-Maklai introduced metal

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to the Ogea.