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Christmas gift exchange at Bulong longhouse

Outlining designs painted on a bark belt in preparation for a dance, using a quill, chewed at one end, as a brush

Senior ere binan

Gifts of matches, salt, fishing line, fish hooks, razor blades, mirrors, red and yellow trade beads and safety pins were given to longhouse members who provided taro, sago, cooking bananas, pineapples and sweet potato for a feast, which everyone shared

Beche de mer industry in the South Pacific Islands

Wowosere tikihata

Christmas gift sharing at Bulong longhouse

Detail of a partially completed arm band that is woven on a miniature loom around a bark base

Febi arrows with barbed cassowary bone points

Red, white and yellow colours are used to highlight different parts of drums. Quills and the edges of feathers are used for applying very fine outlines

A photograph of a 32-year-old polaroid print of four of the six Febi youths who visited Koroba, in the Southern Highlands (now Hela) Province of Papua New Guinea in 1979

A pig tusk is used to polish the black-palm shank of an arrow to highlight the design after lime has been rubbed into the carving