Matt Stevenson's Peace Corps Photos of Papua New Guinea
Third Set of Photos from Papua New Guinea
Here is the third set of Papua New Guinea photos from Andy and Lynna (the first and second sets of photos can be found below). Once again, my Mom made the reprints and I have scanned in the cream of the crop.
Our house from the front before it was screened in
The kitchen
Here are some of the holes in the sago palm leaf roof in the bathroom
From inside our bedroom
The living room area
Before the cut
Cutting
Voila!
Group shot at the all volunteer conference in Madang
Xmas party dinner
The all-volunteer variety show--"The Great Shawmi," John Larson and Alison Ireland
Steve Arenest and Ryan Shelby in an advertisement for "Uncle Bill's Highland Hootch" (Note: Steve (left), in his 60s, is from Detroit and retired from Ford. He was on the Aunty-Dee Show twice as a clarinet player in his band)
The staff singing a song
Lynna and I doing a classic deaf skit: person behind does an "act" with hands/arms, person in front tries to follow/respond with correct facial expressions. Everybody loved it!
The four sexy lip-synching male volunteers
The country director, Anna-Marie, refuses to get up and dance (at the end of the song we were all treated to four streaking full moons)
I'm just washing my clothes. You can't see it very well but sweat is pouring down my back
Here are the men stringing together the saksak (sago palm) leaves to put on our roof
Saksak part II
Saksak part III
Saksak part IV--the finished roof
Another shot of the house
Shot of the garden next to our house
Pictures taken from ferry ship. The white stuff is hot gasses
More volcano
New Ireland, near Tandis village. Walking into the bush--this is an open grassland with pandanas trees growing in it. The pandanas tree is cultivated for its nuts
Out in the bush near Tandis. This is a typical garden clearing. Clearings tend to be about 1/4 to 1/2 the size of a football field. They are used for several years before moving on to a new clearing
This is a really nice spring in the bush
Bush spring part II
This is another spring just like the previous one. The villagers and the health department have built a pipe line from this spring to the village. The health department cut down all the trees around the spring, and some into the spring, which was stupid because now the water smells and tastes bad
Village spring part II
Village spring part III
Village spring part IV
Village spring part V
Village spring part VI
Ghandi (lower left), PHF forester, and men from Tandis village. The bare chested man in the middle is deaf
Some kind of lorikeet at a house in Kavieng, New Ireland
The volcano on the way back from New Ireland. I think the yellow stuff is sulfur
Pix from BBQ at our house with the volunteer advisory committee after their meeting in Kokopo
BBQ part II
BBQ part III
Seeing Lynna off at the ferry to Kimbe, West New Britain, on the MV Miningulai
Jade vine flowers in our yard
Staghorn fern in our back yard
Second Set of Photos from Papua New Guinea
Culture
Women's Cultural Show 1
Women's Cultural Show 2
Women's Cultural Show 3
Women's Cultural Show 4
Women's Cultural Show 5(Asaro Mud Meri)
Women's Cultural Show 6
Women's Cultural Show 7 (Child in Bilas)
Women's Cultural Show 8 (More Bilas)
Women's Cultural Show 9
Women's Cultural Show 10
Women's Cultural Show 11
Women's Cultural Show 12
Women's Cultural Show 13
Women's Cultural Show 14
Women's Cultural Show 15
Women's Cultural Show 16
Women's Cultural Show 17
Clown Dancer. This man was a clown dancer with the Manus group. In the corner you can see a piece of the garamate wooden log drum.
Lynna with the headmistress of Garoka High School.
Asaro Mud Meri.
ASS GRASS!
People
Don holding a cabbage and pumpkin. He is the deaf/blind specialist.
Cecilia and Edmund.
Lena and baby--she is a grade 2 teacher.
Silly shot--Andy, Cathy, Theresa.
Singing the PNG and USA national anthems at a swearing-in ceremony.
Andy juggling for the ceremony.
Stephen, me, Lynna, Bill, and Rachel (Stephen is a Canadian volunteer).
Lynna with sisters Lilian and Maureen--they gave her that Meri blouse.
Hanging out. Next to me is Alowis, an eye technician.
A blurry shot of me and Benny the caretaker and security guard at our housing compound.
Scenery
On the way out to Unngai for eye/ear screening.
Near Daulo Pass.
Andy looking for deaf people.
Hanging out at the waterfall.
Lynna at the waterfall.
A scenic shot...
...and another.
This is the village where I did the lion. The village is on a ridge coming off that mountain--elevation 2,200 m.
Walking through a village.
An example of PNG architecture.
Another PNG house.
A view of the Garoka Valley.
Another view of the Garoka Valley.
Miscellaneous
Our lovely abode (Andy & Lynna's house).
Condom wine!
Sign in front of Mt. Sion.
Some boy found an immature bird--I think that it is a kind of Melidectes--yellow browed or hybrid with Belfords.
The gecko that got stuck.
The gecko that got stuck.
Making the good stuff.
Yardwork.
Aww...
First Set of Photos from Papua New Guinea
Andy and Lynna took a bunch of photos and sent the negatives to my mom in Phoenix. She made reprints (GO MOM!, sent them to me, and I have scanned a few from each roll.
The photos seemed to fall into six main categories, and I selected a few from each of these. Due to time constraints I was unable to generate thumbnails, so there is a text description taken straight from Andy's captions that links to each photo. Have fun exploring Papua New Guinea with Andy and Lynna! My comments are enclosed within [brackets].
Andy and Lynna
Arrival at Kefamo
Peace Corps office in Boroko
Lynna carrying bilum [a type of bag] traditional style
Lynna in a meri blouse and laplap that she made herself
Larry [a fellow Peace Corps volunteer serving in the northern coastal lowlands] is showing me around his garden
Papua New Guineans
Good shot of us and homestay family
Mama, Papa, Joel (son) and Peter Jr.
Tattoos on Mama's face [this is common practice among the PNGians]
Group of kids just hanging out
All the village pikininis love pictures [unlike in the U.S., "pikininis" is not a racial slur, and all of the PNGians refer to their children and other children in this way]
Andy, Peter, Mama
Buildings
The Peace Corps training compound at Kefamo
Parliament building
Mural on traditional longhaus
The liklik haus [toilet] we used for 5 weeks
House that Wowo is building
Standing on house being built by Wowo
Nice house, eh?!? [This is Larry's house]
Carved and decorated canoe [Okay, I KNOW it's not a building, but I didn't know where else to put it!
Scenery
On top of Mt. Gahavisuka [1]
On top of Mt. Gahavisuka [2]
From on top of Mt. Gahavisuka [1]
From on top of Mt. Gahavisuka [2]
Pacific ocean! At Wasu
This is the river that we swam in out to the ocean
River to ocean
Leaving Wasu [1]
Leaving Wasu [2] [This is an excellent view of a coral reef]
Food
Francis [preparing a mumu]
Pouring water into mumu. Water will steam cook the food inside. There are super hot rocks at the bottom of the mumu.
[The mumu is finished and ready to eat!]
Mama making kaukau (sweet potato) mounds
Wildlife
Just hanging out! [This is a ground cuscus, a type of marsupial]
Lynna with cuscus
Cuscus onto neighborhood child
Kokomo (Blythy's Hornbill)
At National Museum in Port. Moresby--echinid
[Unkown bird]
Lynna's earing--it just broke it off and ate it! [This is a juvenile Bird of Paradise]
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