The Awakening Heart
A sojourn in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
In mid-1977 an abiding interest in Old World, non westernized cultures led me to Papua New Guinea, and into the Southern districts of the Highlands.
The photographic portrait of forest magicians, sorcerers, dandies, bachelor-cult leaders, funerary rites, men, women, children, depict a Stone Age people on the cusp of acculturation and irrevocable change.
Papua New Guinea 1977 .
Mt Hagen ‘Sing-Sing’
Local of Goroka
On the Road to Mendi
Boy child with sacred top-knot - in reflection
Mud-daubed mourners gathered at a mud-hole. On the road to Mendi