Archery training Print

Papuans are the common name for the indigenous peoples of New Guinea and some islands in Indonesia. They are one of the few people on earth who have preserved their traditional primitive lifestyle in almost unchanged form. Papua - a province in Indonesia - is a completely different world, not a bit like the rest of the country, and even more so to the well-known Bali. Papuan peoples and tribes look completely different and lead a completely different way of life, very close to the Stone Age. They still live in remote villages far away in mountain forests, in simple huts, inside of which there is nothing but a bed of dry grass and a fire. They still hunt with bows and spears and use them to fight each other. Wives are bought here for pigs and pigs are paid to settle conflicts between villages. The only thing that connects the Papuans with modernity is shorts and T-shirts, which they began to wear in addition to traditional women's skirts and kotekas - pumpkin pipes that replace men's underwear. Lenya Pashkovsky came to Papua for the Baliem Valley Festival - a large-scale event that brings dozens of tribes together every year. It looks as if the usual music festival was transferred to the Stone Age, several thousand years into the past. Hundreds of Papuans in traditional clothes (or rather, without them) perform traditional songs and dances, act out scenes from life, communicate, sell vegetables, bows and spears, show off feather and bone ornaments. It's hard to believe that all of this is happening in 2019. And it’s even harder to believe that this is not a performance, and outside the festival they live the same way. To be convinced of this, after the festival we will go deep into the Baliem valley, to the Papuan villages and experience their primitive life for ourselves.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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