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Kosua mangi (boy) playing ball in the rain.
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Fresh Sago cooked in fire.
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Mt Bosavi in the distance.
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Fire-heated rocks are underneath this first layer of fresh banana leaves—used to help steam the pig meat for the Mumu.
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Bilums in Sing Sing.
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Pineapple and Sugar Cane
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Mumu of wild pig.
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The Sago washing station
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Kosua woman making sago.The sago palm is a staple food for much lowland Southern PNG. The palms grow wild, but are often cultivated to ensure predictable harvests. After chipping away the center core of the palm with the tool you see here, the women use leaves as bag sieves and leaf ‘stems’ as rendering and settling basins. The chopped sago is beaten with a stick in the rendering basin and then washed and squeezed with water. The sago starch (flour) settles at the bottom of the settling pond which is constructed at the bottom of the apparatus. One ripe tree can produce over 600kg of sago palm flour.
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A wild Cassowary Egg. Cassowary are the largest native fauna in Papua New Guinea and the second largest bird in the world. They are a flightless species that has a frightening reputation of being able to kill a grown man with its large, sharp claws. The three species are found only in Northern Australia and New Guinea, but due to habitat loss in Australia, they are on the endangered species list there. In remote New Guinea, populations are strong and still provide reliable and consistent protein and cerimonial plumage for villagers.
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