Image # 723
New Guinea Highland Tribe painted in Parrot and Astrapia Feather Finery Trade goods, particularly ones that make noise like these brass bells, were popular with this particular tribe native to the Karawari River. The primary music for this dance was generated by pulling a stiff steel cable roughly 1/2 centimeter in diameter in and out of a gourdlike wooden resonator .The Karawari is a large tributary of the Sepic River. This area is famous for intricate wood carvings. Papua New Guinea. 1979.
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