Febi youth in ceremonial dress
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Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949-
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Photographer's note: The ceremonial dress is designed to project the disarming beauty of a Raggiana bird of paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) – kumul in Melanesian Pidgin. The headdress consists of several layers of components – cassowary feathers symbolising strength
bird of paradise feathers, in the forehead-band, symbolising beauty and
cuscus fur symbolises alertness. His body is painted with red ochre and face with charcoal. The dagger in his arm-band is made from a cassowary leg-bone. Febi ceremonial dress is similar to that of nearby Papuan lowland groups - Kanai, Kubo, Samo and Bedamini. This photograph was shot at the Koroba Provincial High School, via Koroba, Southern Highlands (now Hela) Province, Papua New Guinea.
bird of paradise feathers, in the forehead-band, symbolising beauty and
cuscus fur symbolises alertness. His body is painted with red ochre and face with charcoal. The dagger in his arm-band is made from a cassowary leg-bone. Febi ceremonial dress is similar to that of nearby Papuan lowland groups - Kanai, Kubo, Samo and Bedamini. This photograph was shot at the Koroba Provincial High School, via Koroba, Southern Highlands (now Hela) Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Dec 1980
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