Girls dance topless, only wearing red grass skirts, and flower pollens. Dances always take place after lengthy make–up ceremonies. Dancers put a mix of coconut oil, mint and lemongrass on their bodies. I thought they were preparing food.
In fact, it was for make–up! I was then invited to join the circle of dancers who then took a sadistic pleasure in making fun of my hairy legs. I had no hope with the girls here though because they don’t like white skin and hair — something they see as a sign of ugliness and scruffiness. The dim dim (the white man) is not their embodying ideal.
Trobiand islanders have a very free sexuality before and even after marriage !
Girls learn to control their contraception very early, virginity before marriage has no importance at all . If a girl gets pregnant her family keeps the « babu According to the local customs, men just help to open the woman who is supposed to be infused with a « Baloma » spirit provoking the pregnancy. Western education changed the point to view of some islanders, but not all of them. Relationships of married couples have not a lot in common with our culture : here a man is supposed to give presents to his wife in return for the sexual favors she provides him.
Trobriand Islands (aka the Kiriwina Islands) ,off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea in Milne Bay Province.
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Boys from Kapleman village, near Kavieng in New Ireland island, Papua New Guinea
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In Trobriand islands, people who have death in their family shave their head. This woman has lost her husband, so she has cut her hair.
Long time ago, the dead people were burried upright, with just the head coming out of the ground, a clay pot on it...
Trobriand Islands (aka the Kiriwina Islands) ,off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea in Milne Bay Province.
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Hubert and George are students. They were killing time on a sunday morning on Bougainville while everybody were at church.
George speaks like Michael Jackson.
Many young men have fought in the civil war, and many have big psychological problems now like told me a german guy from a local NGO. Many smoke marijuana too, that grows easily in the islands, but they do not tolerate the effects, so more and more violent crimes are comitted in Bougainveille...even if the place is really quiet and safe compared to Port Moresby.
Bougainville island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
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At only one hour of Port Moresby, there is a massive drought in Trobriands island. The governement gave 100 000 euros, but the money is somewhere between the capital and the island...At the time i was there, a local journalist came to make a report and it made the headlines of the newspapers. for years, climate has changed in the islands, and the main food, the Yam, have very bad harvests.
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