Initiation ceremony in Simbai, the hats are covered with hundreds of green beetles heads!
Cérémonie d'initiation des jeunes hommes dans la région de Simbai en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée. Les "chapeaux" sont couverts de centaines de têtes de scarabés verts !!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Initiation à Simbaï
Kekeriang Woman
Goroka Show 2007: one of the largest cultural displays in Papua New Guinea, on the weekend closest to Papua New Guinea's Independence Day (16 September)
Goroka in full colour
Goroka show 2008.
A cultural event (if not THE cultural event) in PNG where many tribes and clans boast there colours while singing and dancing. More to follow (but a lot more of selecting for me to do)...and all this almost in my back yard!
The Goroka show (a cultural show where different tribes peform their sing sing (dances and songs) is arguably the largest gathering of indigenous tribes in the world. Over 90 tribes from all over Papua New Guinea -- the world's most culturally diverse nation -- have gathered in Goroka for the annual festival of traditional dance on the Independence Day weekend.
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