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Tubuans & Dukduks

http://garamut.wordpress.com

A blog about current issues and other topics impacting Papua New Guinea.

• Added on: Feb 9th, 2009
• Country: Papua New Guinea
• Language: English

• Author: Tavurvur
• Listed in: Culture Travel
• Tags: png papua new guinea port moresby melanesia highlands raskols

Recent Posts

• Pacific Marine Industrial Zone: Exploiting Tuna in PNG

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 22:35 in filipino, tuna, png, papua new guinea, environmental impact, vidar, madang, png conservation, png economy, north coast road, pacific marine industrial zone, pimz

  More than 700 people have staged a protest march in at Madang provincial government headquarters to petition the administration to stop work on the controversial Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ). The PMIZ, at Vidar along the North Coast Road, i...

• Lost Land of the Volcano – But is it Really Lost?

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 19:12 in bbc, rainforest, png, new species, papua new guinea, lost world, giant rat, camera crew, bbc natural history unit, png conservation, mt bosavi, lost land of the volcano

  You may remember that last month there was a lot of hype made over the ‘discovery’ of a number of unidentified animal species within Mt Bosavi, an extinct volcano on the Great Papuan Plateau, located in Southern Highlands Province, and p...

• Who is this Person? Black or White?

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 20:11 in contemporary art, Stereotypes, png, papua new guinea, cultural exchange, png art, colonoisation, dr michael mel, hailans to ailans

  A friend pointed me on to Hailans to Ailans, a two-part international exhibition presenting contemporary artists from PNG. These artists work in a variety of media, including painting, metal sculpture, wood sculpture, weaving, and performance. ItR...

• Irving Penn’s ‘New Guinea’ Photos

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 19:28 in Photography, png, papua new guinea, portraiture, ethnography, new guinea, png culture, asaro, ialibu, iriving penn, mudmen

  Irving Penn, the famous American fashion photographer and portraiture, passed away early this month aged 92 years old. Penn was a master of the studio flash and most of his portraits are lit with window light. When he travelled to New Guinea in 1970 ...

• Air Niugini, Unpaid Invoices & Stolen Panties

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 20:41 in aviation, crash, manifesto, investigation, air new zealand, kokoda, png transportation, air niugini, airlines png, auckland high court, cowling systems, q400 nextgen

  Last month Air Niugini’s main competitor in the PNG aviation industry, Airlines PNG, was splattered across news sites around the world due to the tragedy of the Kokoda crash where 13 people died in what was PNG’s worst aviation disaster t...

• We Don’t Dance For No Reason

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 20:20 in jazz, vada, png music, queensland music festival, aaron choulai, ai ni asi a mavaru kavamu, peroveta anedia, tatana village choir, we don't dance for no reason

  On the topic of PNG music, check out the stunning composition below organised by Aaron Choulai, VADA and the 16-voice Tatana Village Choir. The choir is performing Peroveta Anedia (Prophet Songs) – traditional choral music sung in intricate mod...

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