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Series269 - Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale photographic prints of Lihir, Papua New Guinea
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Item8 - Clansmen making an entrance to a large feast at Malie Island in 2002. The large baskets they carry are distinctive of the Lihirian culture. They usually carry betelnut (TP:buai), pepper (TP: daka), lime (TP: kambang), tobacco (TP: brus), and are decorat
Item9 - Young girl wearing items of Lihirian adornment. Red pigment from the seeds of the Bixa tree is used as a face and body paint, ornamental leaves tied as a necklace and red hibiscus flowers worn in hair and sometime in armbands. The colour red is associat
Item10 - Boys at Samo delivering talks about the items of body decoration they have chosen. The small bag of tol (red ochre) held by the boy is used for decorating the body and the face. The orchid plant is one of the few body decorations that is not grown close
Item11 - A schoolboy is wearing a neck decoration made from leaves sewn with string (for an adult neck!) and holding the sample of the biar plant that he collected for class.
Item12 - Men performing maintenance on the wheel of one of the ore-carrying vehicles at the mine site
Item13 - The mining project has bought with it improved health services. Major impacts of new health services include the improvement in material health, a decline in infant mortality and infant malnutrition and a growth in population. The picture of a young mot
Item14 - Girl in pink shirt
Item15 - Sunrise from the top of cliff behind the housing estate at Londolovit. The coconuts are part of the old plantation that forms one of the mining leases. Copra, once a major export, is no longer a viable commodity in most parts of the Pacific.

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