Lecture by Lesley Wengembo: CULTURAL IDENTITY, OUR GREATEST ASSET, 1pm Due to Covid, numbers are limited and bookings essential. VENUE: Cell Block Theatre | The National Art School (NAS) corner of Forbes & Burton...
Date: Saturday 6 November 2021 The PNGAA table at the Sydney Oceanic Art Fair welcomes your contributions for sale (10% to PNGAA; the balance to you!) Please email events@pngaa.net if you’d like to participate....
Kalolaine Fainu After a number of delays, with time to reflect on why my flight the previous day had been turned around en route, I finally found myself travelling high above the highlands of...
PNGAA are sponsoring a ‘sale’ table for members at the Oceanic Art Fair in Sydney. Do you have artefacts or memorabilia that are surplus to your needs and you would like to sell? Sydney...
By APR editor – April 3, 2021 COMMENT: By Jackson Kiakari in Port Moresby I am from the Papua New Guinea generation that was born in the 1980s, raised in the 1990s but neglected,...
‘These Kukukuku clubs will make a good addition our Papua New Guinea collection,’ the Queensland Museum Curator said. It was 2019 and I was talking to Imelda Miller, the curator of the Queensland Museum...
P O S T P O N E D In the interests of the health of possible attendees and the community at large, the Committee has decided to postpone PNGAA Events for the moment....
The first Madang field trip, to Malmal Village, was featured in the September issue of Una Voce. The second was to Bilbil Village and Island. I first went to there in 1974. I was...
Having grown up on Bougainville I keep in touch with Bougainvillean expat friends living in Brisbane, and one of the stand-outs in promoting Bougainville’s profile and culture is Veronica Kirin Henderson, president of the...
In June 2014 a group of enthusiasts headed by Professor Glenn Summerhayes of Otago University did two archaeological digs in the Madang area of Papua New Guinea. These were in Malmal Village, located some...
Papua New Guinea’s major churches have committed to a joint national strategy to combat sorcery accusation related violence, declaring their determination to help end a practise blamed for destroying hundreds of lives and damaging...
The following was prepared for the 30th Anniversary of PNG Independence booklet produced by the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc – with special thanks to Ross Johnson. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF PAPUA...
The Director of the South Australian Museum (SAM) Edgar Ravenswood Waite, in 1918 led an expedition, grandly named the North-West Pacific Expedition, departing Sydney 31st May on SS Marsina, returning Sydney 1st September on...
One of the five door prizes at the biennial Cairns “X-Kiaps, Families and Friends Reunion” event was a penultimate-draft set of the six-volume history of The Sepik which has been a labour of love...
For centuries, cannibalism was not only part of tribal life in Papua New Guinea but a central part of religion. When European colonialists arrived in the late 19th century, cannibalism was outlawed. The last...
