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Papua New Guinea

  Papua New Guinea Masks

 Benjamin Lowy for The New York Times 

 Papua New Guinea Woman Smiling

 GIGS WENA’s NASFUND Art Award winning PNG 2011, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 181 × 91 cm. Courtesy Art Stret Ltd, Port Moresby.

Ancient pre contact, wood carved Janus ancestral figure from central Abelam area, Kalabu Village

 Papua New Guinea woman in Tufi

Angoram ancestor figure mask, Sepik River

 Asmat Shield, Unir (Lorenz) River, Irian Jaya

Sotheby’s

 Suli Muli Women Dancing In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

‘Damarau’ clay pottery made by the women in Aibom Village on the Sepik River

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Polished stone wedding gift – Trobriand Islands

The islands are coral atolls, and anything of stone is considered rare and valuable.
Photo Eric Lafforgue

Unglazed earthenware cooking pot (gun), Bosman peoples, Ramu River

Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea — Oceania Mask Art

Angoram carved mask – Sepik River

Clay pot for smoking fish – Keram River location

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 Independence Day Papua New Guinea - YouTube

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 Damarau or Sago Storage Vessel

Carved clay ‘Kamana’ (cooking vessel) – Sawos people

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Women of the Lirako Village, Tari

 Mark Rothschild Photography

Figural Head Dress – New Britain, Sulka People

circa 1880, Papua New Guinea

LACMA

Crocodile cult dancers – Yentchen  Sepik

 Huli Men, Wabia Village, Tari

Spirit Dance

Damarau sago strorage vessel

Hulis tribe girls at Mount Hagen festival ‘sing sing’

 Women's Village (Lirako), Tari

Iatmul hook – Sepik River, PNG

 Geometrically carved clay pot – Madang Province, PNG

 Women's Village (Lirako), Tari

White face symbolizes mourning

 Kanganaman Village wood carved statue—East Sepik Province—Papua New Guinea

Hand painted mask – Kanganaman Village

East Sepik Province – Papua New Guinea

Flickr – Rita Willaert

 Wig School, Tari

Poroipa Akau

Kwams–eating bowl with figural relief art – Naimi, Papua New Guinea

Flickr–Ant Ware

 Wood carved hook – New Guinea

 Wig School, Tari

Symbolic drinking and spitting of water to cleanse the body

 Dream Face Mask, Papua New Guinea

Anthropomorphic Figure, Melanesia, Urama and Era River groups, Papua New Guinea

Musée Barbier-Mueller

 Wig Man, Tari

He sleeps on a pole at night so his hair is not disturbed. After 18 months, the hair is made into a wig.

Ceramic Sago Pot – Iatmul peoples

Sepik River

Decorated gourd Lime Pot

Trobriand Islands

 Horo Village (Linako), Tari

The "Big Man" is the village elder. He produced fire by rubbing 2 strings together to light his pipe.

Hand carved chief’s throne – Madang, PNG

 Relief decoration cooking pot – PNG

Mary Cotterman – flickr

 Kundiman Village, Karawari

Extracting the pulp from the sago palm, which will be used to make their pudding, one of 2 meals daily.

Masked dancers in front of the men’s longhouse at Tovei village

Frank Hurley, 1921,  Australian Museum.

Red Mask

Murik Watam, PNG, Sepik Province

The Barbier Mueller Museum

 Abelam clay pot with spirit-face mid-20th century

Michael Hamson Oceanic Art

Karawari, Sepik Basin

This woman catches fish. She cooks and eats some of them in order to give herself sustenance, so that she can then feed her family.

Madang province clay pot

20th century

‘Aripa’ – Hunter’s helper figure

Korewori Caves region, PNG

National Gallery Australia

Spirit House, Tanganimbit Village, Konbrop Tribe, Darawari

Victory Dance

Orator stool

Nagum Boiken clay pot

20th century

 Yimes Village #1, tanganimbit Village, Konbrop Tribe, Karawari

When a male tribe member turns 17, he undergoes an initiation ceremony in which he receives burns on his chest and back.

Wall art tribal mask – PNG

Tribal masks in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Face Masks, Karawari

 Erima Village, Boge Tribe, Mount Hagen

Three widows with their babies

 Carved canoe splashboard, Trobriand Islands, PNG

 Fish smoking clay pot, Dimeri Village

Lower Sepik River, New Guinea,

 Paiadona Village, Mount Hagen
Skulls from clan members that were murdered

 Female spirit figure sculpture

Yam Spirit pottery head- Washuk Region

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 Huli Men, Wabia Village, Tari

Spirit Dance

 Women dancing in the Purari Delta,Gulf of Papua

Photographed by Rev Harry Moore Dauncey, Late 19th Century

 British Museum

 London wall mural – Indigenous Person of Papua New Guinea

Dale Grimshaw