Post #158563 by I dream of tiki on Fri, May 13, 2005 7:44 AM

You are very kind Benzart. I am merely being the mouth piece for Dominique. She has wonderful pictures and stories to tell. She is very excited to have such a willing audience. We will keep the photos and stories coming.

Dominique was telling me more details about the "Singsing" festival. It seems earlier in the 20th Century, folks from Australia proposed to the people of Papua New Guinea that it would be better for them to start having festivals to display their self-expressing costumes than fighting and killing each other. Ah, those cannibal days.
So, now the best way to see these colorful costumes of all these tribes in one place is to attend the "Singsing." Otherwise, a visitor would need to travel to each of the individual tribes.

Dominique pointed out how each tribes has their own unique costumes, as you have already witnessed with the boar's tusk, blue faces, heavy plumage, and skeleton resembling costumes.

[ Edited by: I dream of tiki on 2005-05-13 07:54 ]