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collecte 2007

NEW COLLECTION

January - February 2007

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

the top Sepik at the mouth ...

At dawn, boiling water for breakfast

We are Nagri in countries Nokouma . The waters are high which allowed us to grow rapidly in the dugout. However, the rainy season is not conducive walking and I have to cancel my trip to Waras located 5 hours walking in good weather. The roads are slippery, stuck, we would double the time.

Back to the dugout with the items bought, everybody helps.

Two habits of the inhabitants of this region, Bilum and contact from hand to hand.

Muni inseparable from my book, squatting because the ceiling is not high, I review some figures Minja .

Aligning objects before loading them into the canoe

The canoe is ready , covering protect objects from the sun and rain .

A small family landed

Towards Singjuk

In the rainy season, roads are very muddy

Testimony ...

A houses ceremony Singjuk

The inner surfaces of the roofs of ceremonial house are covered with bark and often decorated with painted figure of worship, Minja here janus .

Here, a statue nogwi

Looking outside

On the other box, a crocodile bark was completely reconstituted. Here we see the tail.

And here, his mouth

Back to the dugout

It's a long parade of children and adults to accompany me and help me carry my acquisitions.

Preparation of the canoe

She is loaded, it's time to start

Knowing that I had to go through this place, some people Urumbanj waiting for me in the river to offer me things.

The canoes are reconciled and it manages to sell and buy

women paddling in general sitting

We to Kupkain in the box where we will spend the night. Notice the painted boards that decorate this place

These boards are almost round the box.

A Swagup several men came together to make paddles and canoes

This woman Swagup extract the "starch of the sago palm pulp

Starch is collected in this back canoe

This starch will be used to bake cakes that serve as sago starch in the diet of people in the Sepik

A Mino, bark baskets are made to protect small pottery

Here's another house ceremony, but this time in the village of Yessan

collection was successful and I have to use two boats joined together by a bamboo bed for transporting a large volume of objects. However, the weight constraint remains and it will monitor the water line of the raft so as not to load too. In case of strong wind, ripples can form quickly, water filling the boat and the boat sank.

was placed first boards and shields

Barks painted, fragile, are packed between the bamboos.

We often wonder about the small size of the canoes are on display in our showroom, this photo is all talk.

children are associated with many tasks of daily living, for fun and with a smile

double canoe fills ...

It is now sufficiently charged

Mino A villager carving a figure Kwoma

Two double canoes were needed for the objects collected in the upper Sepik and waskuk Hills

Step to Ambunti

Both pilots must agree on their speed and direction

Arrive Pagwa where you're going to have a first shipment by truck to Wewak

We pause to remember the picture, it s is a question of my team the top Sepik

A memorable moment in arriving at Palimbei. I am greeted by drums played on these two huge garamut

The bivouac at night. We do heat the water on the fire in this fireplace clay

Aibom A woman working to collect sago flour

the pulp of the sago palm

starch is recovered here in a bark

House ceremonial Aibom

The same house ceremony more closely. Poles, huge, carved entirely.

No, this is not the bank but a river completely blocked by mounds of earth on which floating weeds have taken root. We will have to fight for nearly an hour and a half to overcome these obstacles and achieve Maramba.

Yuat River. Strange vision of the man perched on a trunk in the middle of the water.

The banks of the river Yuat have countless palm trees that produce the famous betel nut consumed by the Papuans.

Once is not custom, we have abandoned the boat for banana boat and go through to Biwat.

Children of Mendam extract the pulp of a piece of sago palm trunk.

Region Murik lakes near the mouth of the Sepik. The proximity of the sea is hinted at the presence of mangroves, which testify to the existence a mangrove swamp.