Omie: The Other Oro Tapa
Joan Winter, International Partner Omie Tapa Art PNG The moment I stepped off the plane at Jacksons Airport in 1972 I fell in love with Papua New Guinea. I collected my first Oro tapa...
Category: Local Cultural
Aspects of PNG Life
Sel Kambang and Andapen
Part TWO • BAKA BINA This story picks up from Part One in the March issue where Baka wrote about when he was in Grade 4 and the school children were being taught a...
Papua New Guinea’s Peter To Rot to be canonised as first Melanesian saint
Pope Francis has passed a decree on 1 April 2025 which enables Papua New Guinea to get its first saint. The late Peter To Rot from East New Britain is to be canonised, making...
Who Started Tok Pisin?
Professor Craig Alan Volker In this monthly discussion we will answer one question about language in PNG and beyond. This month we are looking at how Tok Pisin started, just who started it, and...
From Cannibalism to Crocodiles
Daryl Binning OAM, ACS …. Missionaries to mud men, kudus to Kokoda, lap laps to lakatois—just some of the topics discussed by wantoks at the August luncheon meeting of the Western Australian branch of...
Hako Women’s Collective Association Inc. Celebrating 20 Years
Marilyn Havini AM I was virtually dragooned into forming the Hako Women’s Collective (HWC) in 2004. It occurred this way … on holidays in Bougainville for a Christmas break from teaching visual arts at...
Of Dolphins and Men (and women and children)
Chips Mackellar Ever seen that 1957 movie, Boy on a Dolphin, with Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd? The title song sung by Julie London stated: There’s a tale that they tell of a dolphin...
The Skull – Peter Uechtritz
Our plantation, ‘Sum Sum’, is situated on a lonely stretch of the south-east coast of New Britain. Our nearest neighbours live twenty miles in one direction and thirty miles in the other. Native tracks...
A Manitoba Family in Gili Gili: 1925–29 KATHERINE PETTIPAS—PART 3
From 1925 to 1929, William McGregor, a Canadian farmer/rancher worked on the Gili Gili Plantation in the Milne Bay District as the Head Stockman for Lever Brothers. Accompanying him on this venture were his...
A PNG Music Mix in Queensland – M A Uechtritz
What are the odds of two Papua New Guinea-born creatives meeting by chance in the Highlands of Eudlo in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland? When Chris Cobb stepped inside the door of Bradley Campbell’s shed...
Learning Tok Pisin: it’s harder than it looks by Dorian (Dusty) Nicol
At first as I began to learn Pidgin, I thought, ‘This is easy. It’s a form of baby talk and there’s nothing to it’. I could not have been more mistaken Unravel | Issue...
Two Cargo Cults and Their Origin
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Compiling the Austronesian Deluge Myths – Dec PNG Kundu 2023
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Sailing Canoes of Siassi Islands By Peter Worsley
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CSIRO in the Southern Highlands, 1961 Part 2: People in the Landscape
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