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Sciences et Vie Junior Avril 08

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:50:05 -0700

Pour les français: quelques photos de mes papous dans le numéro d'avril 2008 de Sciences et Vie Junior qui vient de sortir... Dire que j'étais nul en sciences, physique et biologie à l'école!
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing

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Emira woman - Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:59:23 -0800

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Then comes a fat Emira woman, covered in sump oil (how can they remove it after ??)

“Armed carjackings, assaults, robbery, shootings and serious sexual offences, including rape, are common in Papua” says the Foreign Office travel advice to travelers!
The papua tourism office has a hard work convincing more people like me to come to PNG!
Once a year takes place in Mount Hagen the biggest tribal meeting, called a singsing.
The “Men bilong pait” (the Warriors) ,the” pipels” (the women), and the “pikinini” (the children) are all here. Hundreds of papus are preparing themselves for the Singsing. It’s in open air, but you feel like being backstage in the latest fashion show in Milano or Paris as men paint their faces in red,yellow,white,black, women take grass to make skirts or kilts and cover their bodies with clay, mud, or even pigs fat!
Old wise men are building the giant headdresses made of eagle, parrot and bird of paradise feathers. Each feather is packed in newspaper, to protect them from insects. It will take hours…
Some warriors wear also marsupial jaws as necklaces! “If you do not have jaws, you can put dogs teeth, it works too” they tell me!
Bones, shells, pigs tusks, or twigs are put in the noses. I meet a Highlands warrior who has gave up the traditional shell that he used to put in his nose, and now uses an electrical meter!
Papu like to put a modern touch in their jewels or decorations, as we like to put some tribal stuff in our so called designed houses!

Now it’s time for parade. All the tribes are marching. It’s a mix of sounds and sights, not a love parade, rather a war parade!
The Mount Hagen festival was launched by the Australian colonial governor in 1964, to promote peace in the country.So…The warriors simulate fights! But the stone axes, the arrows, the shields, the spears, the bludgeons are real! There won’t be any violence during the festival, but everyday, tribal fights still take place, with guns instead of axes, and people die…
You can hear war songs, drums, and the tribes start to march in circle, in column, or in line .
The tribes keep on dancing until sundown, and have to listen to an endless speech from a local political while the few tourists go back to their hotels, stoned by the loudspeakers noise!

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A feather for grand father Huli Papua New guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:52:22 -0800

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Huli warrior, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Mount Hagen singsing

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:33:59 -0800

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Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Closer, i was his meal - Huli Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:26:11 -0800

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Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing

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Because i'm worth it ! China mirror Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:56:39 -0800

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Cheap China products have invaded Papua New Guinea, as you can see...And all the shops belong to..chinese sellers! A kind of new western...
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Mount Hagen sing sing - Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:02:24 -0800

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Moke tribe, Papua New Guinea, from the Highlands. They all stay in line (more than 20 people) and sing war chants...
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Mud men from Asaro Papua New guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:30:04 -0800

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The Asaro Mudmen come from just outside the town of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The mud men covered their bodies with mud and become white. White colour represents death in the Papouasian culture. On the fingers, they put bamboos sticks to make noise and frighten the ennemies. First people who watched mud men fled, terrified. Then it became a big attarction in the local festivals.The only original mud-man remaining is Mister Ruipo Okoro. He accuses some young men of other ethnical groups who are not descendents of the true ancestors to use the mud men ritual as an entertainment for tourists to make money.
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Papuan in the sky

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:16:43 -0800

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Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:27:50 -0800

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Warakala snakemen
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:04:12 -0800

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I come back with your pix Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:38:08 -0800

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I came back in Papua with the pics i took last year, great succes! The deads were well alive!

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Papua New Guinea Huli

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:12:10 -0800

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Huli's back with pigs teeth
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing

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Papua New Guinea - Mount Hagen

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:59:12 -0700

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Mud man Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:14:00 -0700

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Mourning woman Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:58:09 -0700

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Mindima widows wearing necklaces of seeds (Job's tears) .The woman will remove one collar of seeds each day while the mourning time until the last one.Then she can wash themselve and find a new husband.
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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h3d-39 Huli eyes Papua New Guinea

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:34:53 -0700

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Khoril in Mount Hagen singsing

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:25:42 -0800

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This tribe is called Khoril. They are not dwarfs, but they dress and look like, to celebrate old belief. They stick hair on their face as a fake beard.And they are very funny!
Ambulua boys from Khoril Khu (Mt. Wilhelm)
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing
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Papu boy in Mount Hagen

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:01:57 -0800

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My Papua pix in "The Times" !

nobody@flickr.com (Eric Lafforgue) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:33:47 -0800

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In "The Times" newspaper of the last week, one of my Papous pic reworked by Pierre Beteille
Papua New Guinea , Highlands, Mount Hagen festival singsing

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