 Children dressed up for sing sing in Yengisa, Papua New Guinea The culture of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is many-sided and complex. It is estimated that more than 1000 different cultural groups exist in PNG, and most groups have their own language. Because of this diversity, in which they take pride, many different styles of cultural expression have emerged; each group has created its own expressive forms in art, dance, weaponry, costumes, singing, music, architecture and much more. Download high resolution version (1782x1185, 356 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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To unify the nation, the language Tok Pisin, once called Neo-Melanesian (or Pidgin English) has evolved as the lingua franca — the medium through which diverse language groups are able to communicate with one another in Parliament, in the news media, and elsewhere. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
A Pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues. ...
Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ...
People typically live in villages or dispersed hamlets which rely on the subsistence farming of sweet potatoes and taro. The principal livestock in traditional PNG is the oceanic pig (Sus papuiensis). To balance the diet, people of PNG hunt, collect wild plants, or fish — depending on the local environment and mode of subsistence. Those who become skilled at farming, hunting, or fishing — and are generous — earn a great deal of respect in Papua New Guinea. Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ...
Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. ...
Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ...
Hunter and Huntress redirect here. ...
Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ...
Traditional cultures
On the Sepik River, there is a world-renowned tradition of wood carving. These carvers create forms of plants or animals, because they believe these are their ancestor beings and because they feel they are beautiful. They also create traditional skull portraits. Location of the Sepik River The Sepik River is the longest river in Papua New Guinea (although the Fly River also claims to be the longest). ...
Carved wooden cranes Wood carving is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool held in the hand (this may be a power tool), resulting in a wooden figure or figurine (this may be abstract in nature) or in the ornamentation of a wooden object. ...
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Even though sea shells are no longer the currency of Papua New Guinea - sea shells were abolished as currency in 1933 - this heritage is still present in local customs. In certain parts of the country a groom must bring a bride price to the wedding ceremony. In some cases this is paid in golden-edged clam shells [1]. In other areas, a dowry is payable rather than bride price. These payments may take the form of shell money, food, pigs, cash, or other goods. The hard, rigid outer calcium carbonate covering of certain animals is called a shell. ...
Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Cultural heritage (national heritage or just heritage) is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. ...
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Bride price also known as bride wealth or a dower is an amount of money or property paid to the parents of a woman for the right to marry their daughter. ...
Littleneck clams; the pictured mollusks are of the species Mercenaria mercenaria. ...
A dowry (also known as trousseau) is a gift of money or valuables given by the brides family to the grooms at the time of their marriage. ...
In some parts of the New Guinea highlands, people engage in colorful local rituals that are called "sing sings". They paint themselves and dress up with feathers, pearls and animal skins to represent birds, trees or mountain spirits. Sometimes an important event, such as a legendary battle, would be enacted at such a musical festival. Alternative meaning: Sing Sing (band) Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a prison in Ossining, New York. ...
Two feathers Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. ...
Strand of akoya pearls from China Pearl farm, Seram, Indonesia A pearl is a hard, rounded object produced by certain animals, primarily mollusks such as oysters. ...
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Lyskamm, 4 527 m, Pennine Alps A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ...
Generally, a battle is an instance of combat in warfare between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ...
A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some unique aspect of that community. ...
Clothing Traditional clothing varies across the country. In some parts of the highlands, the koteka is traditionally worn by males to protect their penes in ceremonial contexts. The koteka, horim, or penis sheath is a phallocrypt traditionally worn by native male inhabitants of some (mainly highland) ethnic groups in western New Guinea to cover their genitals. ...
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Children dressed for a sing-sing in 2003 The island of New Guinea is divided into two halves. ...
Traditional music Christian missionaries disapproved of Papuan folk music throughout the colonial period of the country's history. Even after independence, the outside world knew little of the diverse peoples' traditional music genres. The first commercial release to see an international audience didn't occur until 1991 (see 1991 in music), when Mickey Hart's Voices of the Rainforest was released. See also: 1991 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1991 Record labels established in 1991 other events of 1991 list of years in music 1990s in music // 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ...
Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is best known as one of the two drummers from the rock band the Grateful Dead. ...
After 1872, foreigners introduced Christian hymns, including Gregorian chanting. Peroveta anedia, ute and taibubu, all forms of Polynesian music, were also introduced in this period. The Gold Rush brought an influx of Australian miners who brought with them the mouth organ. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Ute may refer to: The Ute, a tribe of Native Americans of the Uto-Aztecan language family. ...
A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it can freely...
Traditional celebrations, which include song, dance, feasting and gift-giving, are called singsing. Vibrant and colorful costumes adorn the dancers, while a leader and a chorus sing a staggered approach to the same song, producing a fugue-like effect. 1993 saw television spreading across the country, and American popular music continued to affect Papuan music given the diffusion of radio since WWII. Since 1953, singsings have become competitive in nature, with contests occurring in Port Moresby, Mt. Hagen and Goroka. 1949 saw the first Papuan to achieve international fame, Blasius To Una, begin his career. In music, a fugue (IPA: ) is a type of contrapuntal composition. ...
The plane, Canberra, before the 1933 expedition to Mount Hagen Mount Hagen is third largest city in Papua New Guinea. ...
Goroka is a town in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. ...
Popular music Radio broadcasting of western popular music began by the late 1930s. String bands became very popular by the early 1950s, and soon dominated the pop landscape. In the late 1960s, rock bands like the Kopikats had appeared in cities, while string bands like the Paramana Strangers had become well-known internationally. This was followed by the importation of bamboo bands, a style of music from the Solomon Islands using bamboo tubes played by hitting them with sandals. It first arrived in the area of Madang in the mid-1970s, and soon spread throughout the country. Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ...
The string band originated as a subgenre of old-time music. ...
Paramana Strangers is a string band from Papua New Guinea which gained international prominence in the 1960s. ...
Madang Lighthouse Madang is the capital of Madang Province and is a town on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. ...
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By the end of the '70s, a local recording industry had appeared and artists like Sanguma and, later, George Telek, began mixing native and Western styles like rock music and jazz. Sanguma, formed in 1977 at the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, was a musical ensemble that combined music from the cultural tradition of Papua New Guinea with Western instruments. ...
George Mamua Telek is a singer from Papua New Guinea. ...
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Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ...
Literature Ulli Beier, a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Papua New Guinea since 1967 was crucial in encouraging young writers and getting their work published. From 1969 to 1974 he was the editor of Kovave, a journal of New Guinea literature. He also published Papua Pocket Poets, and Pidgin Pocket Plays. Kovave ceased publication in 1974 but was replaced by the journal New Guinea Writing although this concentrated on folk tales. Ulli Beier (1922- ) is a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing Nigerian drama and poetry. ...
Natachee was the first Papuan poet to appear in print. The first autobiography was Albert Maori Kiki's Kiki in 1974. The first novel was Crocodile (1970) by Vincent Eri. Cover of An autobiography, from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write, is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with). The term dates from the late eighteenth century, but the form is much older. ...
Vincent Eri GCMG (born 1936 in Moveave, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea-died May 25, 1993 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) was the first Papua New Guinean national to write a novel, The Crocodile in English. ...
Visual Arts
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There is a rich and diverse tradition of visual art. In particular, Papua New Guinea is world-famous for carved wooden sculpture: masks, canoes, story-boards. Many of the best collections of these are held in overseas museums. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 538 KB) Summary This sculpture is in the Stanford University New Guinea sculpture garden. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 538 KB) Summary This sculpture is in the Stanford University New Guinea sculpture garden. ...
There is a rich and diverse tradition of visual art in Papua New Guinea. ...
Those identified as being in the first wave of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea are: Mathias Kauage OBE (b. 1944), Akis, Jakupa and Nalo, all from the tough urban area of Port Moresby. Kauage won Australia's Blake Prize for religious art, four of his works are in the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, and he had a solo show in 2005 at the Horniman Museum, "Kauage's Visions: Art from Papua New Guinea". Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
Akis is a tiny lunar crater on the Oceanus Procellarum. ...
Port Moresby town Port Moresby, (), population 255,000 (2000), is the capital of Papua New Guinea. ...
Sport Sports are hugely popular in Papua New Guinea and its citizens participate in and watch a wide variety. Popular sports include most forms of football (rugby league, Rugby Union, Soccer and Australian rules football), cricket, volleyball, softball, netball and basketball. Other Olympic sports are also gaining popularity including boxing and weightlifting. Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ...
A rugby union scrum. ...
Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
The Big Men Fly - high marking is a key skill and spectator attribute of Aussie Rules Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the most important skill in Aussie Rules Footy Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy...
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Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
Softball is an activity descended from baseball, in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (or rarely, 16 inches) (28 to 30. ...
Netball sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as womens basketball. Invented by Clara Gregory Baer[1], a pioneer in womens sport, it is now the pre-eminent womens team sport (both as a spectator...
Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ...
The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo DomÃnguez (left) versus Rafael OrtÃz Boxing, called pugilism (from Latin), prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science[1] is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series...
A weightlifter about to jerk 180 kg[1] Weightlifting is a sport where competitors attempt to lift heavy weights mounted on steel bars called barbells, the execution of which is a combination of power, flexibility, and technique. ...
Rugby league is the most popular sport in Papua New Guinea (especially in the highlands) which also unofficially holds the title as the "national sport". The annual Australian State of Origin matches are the most watched sporting event of the year. The West New Britain Rugby League player, Marcus Bai, is a national celebrity after he played for the National Rugby League with Melbourne Storm (he is currently playing in the Super League competition in England). A new national competition started in 2005 called the SP Cup. See article Rugby league in Papua New Guinea. The Rugby League State of Origin is an annual series of three interstate rugby league matches between the Maroons, representing the state of Queensland and the Blues, representing the state of the New South Wales. ...
Marcus Bai Marcus Bai (born November 10, 1972) is a Papua New Guinean Rugby league player. ...
The National Rugby League (sometimes referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is a professional competition for rugby league clubs in Australia and New Zealand, and is Australasias primary rugby league competition. ...
The Melbourne Storm are a rugby league team based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that is owned by News Limited, part of News Corporation that also owns the Herald Sun, Melbournes most popular newspaper. ...
The engage Super League logo Super League (Europe) is the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Rugby League is a popular team sport in Papua New Guinea, and indeed is generally regarded as the national sport. ...
Australian Rules Football, once the most popular football in PNG until the 1970s, is gaining popularity with the introduction of players at the top level into the AFL, including Mal Michael (Brisbane Lions) and James Gwilt (St Kilda Football Club). PNG has the largest number of Australian Rules Footballers outside of Australia, and has one of the fastest growing junior development programs. The "Mosquitos", currently captained by Navu Maha are the national team and were runners up in the Australian Football International Cup in both 2003 (to Ireland) and 2005 (to New Zealand). See article Australian rules football in Papua New Guinea. Malcolm Roberto Mal Michael (born June 24, 1977 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian rules footballer. ...
The Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club (the trading name for the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club) are an Australian Football League club based in Brisbane, Queensland. ...
James Gwilt (born August 11, 1986) is an Australian rules football player for the St Kilda Football Club. ...
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ...
The Mosquitos (aka Binatangs - local PNG name for small insects, similar to a mosquito) are Papua New Guineas national Australian Rules football team that represents the clubs and teams of AFL PNG and is one of the nations most successful sporting teams, ranked 3rd in the world behind...
Navulani Maha (born Alukuni, Papua New Guinea September 30, 1974) is an all-round sportsman that has represented Papua New Guinea in both Australian rules football and cricket. ...
The Australian Football International Cup is an international Australian rules football competition hosted by the Australian Football League. ...
Australian Rules Football is a popular team sport played in Papua New Guinea. ...
Cricket is traditionally popular in the Papuan provinces where the British had the most influence. In the Trobriand Islands cricket has become fused with the local culture and a game played with stones instead of a rock and unlimited fielders has developed. It was introduced in 1903 by Methodist missionaries, and has become a beloved sport there. The Trobriand Islands are a 170 mi² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea. ...
Further reading - James Patrick Sinclair. The Arts of Papua New Guinea. (1977).
- Susan Cochrane, Michael Mel. Contemporary Art in Papua New Guinea. (1997).
- Gloria Stewart. Introduction to Sepik Art of Papua New Guinea.
- The Stories of Pokop of Pohyomou. (Papua New Guinea University Press, 1996).
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