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The boys are then dressed in ritual clothing and an attempt is made to force them to suck on ritual flutes. [7] The boys are then taken to a cult house and older boys dance in front of them making sexual gestures. [7] Once it gets darker the younger boys are taken to the dancing ground where they are expected to perform fellatio on the older ...
The ritual is a lengthy process and can be divided into four stages for the initiates: At the age of nine, young boys are taken from their mothers to become Yivupbwanya and as a result their women skirts are cut short at the front and removed from behind while their noses are pierced. At age eight they begin to ingest semen from older males ...
The Etoro, or Edolo, are a tribe and ethnic group of Papua New Guinea. Their territory comprises the southern slopes of Mt. Sisa, along the southern edge of the central mountain range of New Guinea, near the Papuan Plateau. They are well known among anthropologists because of
The rite of passage through which a child becomes an adult in Orokaiva society is largely exceptional among the peoples of Papua New Guinea, involving both girls and boys. It begins with masked figures, dressed in bird feathers and pigs' tusks and representing ancestral spirits, entering the village as if on a hunt, and herding up the children ...
Duk-Duk dancers in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, 1913 Duk-Duk is a secret society , part of the traditional culture of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area of New Britain , the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea , in the South Pacific.
They are one of the largest cultural groups in Papua New Guinea, numbering over 250,000 people (based on the population of Hela of 249,449 at the time of the 2011 national census). [ 1 ] The Huli are keenly aware of their history and folk-lore as evidenced in their knowledge of family genealogy and traditions.
Gope is a term for a spiritually charged carved board made to represent an ancestral hero in the Papuan Gulf of Papua New Guinea. [1] Papuan Gulf people of Kikori, Baimaru, Uruma, Hohao, and Orokolo [2] refer to these sculptured boards as Kwoi. The sculptures are often made from the sides of an old canoe. [3]
Chambri (previously spelled Tchambuli) are an ethnic group in the Chambri Lakes region in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. The social structures of Chambri society have often been a subject in the study of gender roles. They speak the Chambri language. Margaret Mead, a cultural anthropologist, studied the Chambri in 1933.