Photographer: David R. Eastburn, 1949-2021-03-292021-03-29Dec 1980http://hdl.handle.net/1885/228547Photographer'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 strengthbird of paradise feathers, in the forehead-band, symbolising beauty andcuscus 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.photographen-AUThis item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.Papua New Guinea2021-03-29