Liebert and dinner
Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the tropical island of New Guinea which it shares with the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya and includes many smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The central part of the island rises into a forbidding range of mountains called the "highlands", a territory that is so densely forested and forbidding that the island's local peoples have remained isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years. Nancy Sullivan, an intrepid anthropologist from PNG agreed to lead us while we covered several stories. This story was along the Kaningara river.
I headed down the Sepik river with Eric and a crew that included Nancy Sullivan, an anthropologist, to do a short film on "Kaningara skin cutting initiation".
Nancy Sullivan keeps an eye out
Liebert holds a sago grup, an important protein source
The entrance to the spirit lodge. the sculpture of the women signifies her giving birth to those who exit the lodge where knowledge is imparted
Family member greet initiates who have been in the lodge for a long time
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