Not caving pictures, but some interesting B&W portraits of local people taken when I participated in the Royal Geographic Society's 1975 British Speleological Expedition to the headwaters of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. Andy Eavis, who many of you met at ICS last year, was co-leader of the expedition. Here's the public link to the album on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2091947&id=1172443723&l=6dc576cb33 We were fortunate to have spent time in the area when many of the Mountain Ok people still wore traditional dress (penis gourds on the men, nose bones, etc.). Shortly after the expedition Mountain Ok lifestyles changed dramatically as the world's largest open pit copper mine was developed in the area and a local form of Christian evangelism replaced the indigenous taro cultivation-based religion. Side note: Mountain Ok religion held special significance for us cavers: Afek, the Mountain Ok ancestress deity, travelled through the area in large underground tunnels on her way to create the various Mountain Ok peoples. When we discovered huge borehole passages during the expedition, the locals weren't surprised. They had grown up hearing about those passages in Afek stories. Kinda the Oztotl of Papua New Guinea. Frank Frank Binney Frank Binney & Associates Interpretive Planning and Media Development P.O. Box 258 Woodacre, CA 94973 415.488.1200 Voice 415.488.1500 Fax fr...@frankbinney.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
