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Item ID
SG1-019
Title Mt Hagen Show, Western Highlands Province, PNG, 1987
Description Various cultural group performances at the Mt Hagen Show in 1987.

The order of performances are;

1. A Show highlight featuring Japanese Commercial crew capturing famous highlands “Karim Lek” singing and performance followed by Madang Bamboo band with mix modern string band featuring Western Highlands boys singing and dancing.

2. Western Highlands women Ritual Dance. Young unwed women stand in a circle and a woman conductor stands in the middle of the circle chanting ritual slogans and being repeated by the dancing women in the circle.

3. Morobe combine men and women dressed in traditional ceremony attire. The dance is the most common in the province. Men stand in the middle beating kundu drums and the women dance in pairs holding hands circling the men.

4. Western Highlands men only dance. Men dressed in very colorful decorated headdress with long black feathers and dance on the spot in a horizontal single line holding hands and bending knees in union.

5. Western Highlands women only dance. Women with colorful painted faces and decorated head dress sing and dance stomping their feet moving forward.

6. Southern Highlands and Hela famous Huli men only dance. Probably the most colorful, elegant and decorated body works using paint and oils in the highlands of PNG.

7. Hagen, Western Highlands, mixed men and women dance. Men holding hands with counterpart women dancers shoulder to shoulder standing in a horizontal line and dancing to the beating of kundu drums.
8. Hagen War Dance by men holding spears, bows and arrows. Men painted with war paint and dress to kill dance stomping their feet turning in all directions and mimicking to spear anyone in their sight.

9. Mt. Bosawi, Southern Highlands mix men and women dance. Men and women form a group singing and dancing with one or two members performing rotational dance circling the group swinging handheld decorations.

(Paul Tevlone, July 2024)
Origination date 1987-08-22
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/SG1/019
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Steven Gagau
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Region / village Mt Hagen, Western Highlands Province

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Originating university University of Sydney
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Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous : performer
Paul Tevlone : consultant
DOI 10.26278/1jx9-ha69
Cite as Steven Gagau (collector), Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous (performer), Paul Tevlone (consultant), 1987. Mt Hagen Show, Western Highlands Province, PNG, 1987. X-MATROSKA/MP4. SG1-019 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/1jx9-ha69
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SG1-019-01.mp4 video/mp4 986 MB 00:20:29.329
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Collection Information
Collection ID SG1
Collection title Sulka Pomio Culture Recordings
Description Since 2014, I have been visiting Kilalum village, a rural coastal community along the south coast in the Wide Bay area of East Pomio in the Pomio District of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. The village and surrounding areas is occupied by the Kaimun clan of the Sulka Tribe, one of the ethnic Papuan language groups on New Britain Island surrounded by other Austronesian language groups on the island. In the subsequent years, I became interested and got motivated by the conversations about culture preservation with the Chief and traditional leader of the Kaimun clan and its group of elders within its sub-clans of the Sulka Tribe who live in the Wide Bay region along the south eastern coastline of the Province. The Sulka tribe occupies an area located in between other ethnic tribal groups called the “Mengens” to the south, the “Bainings” to the north and the “Tomoip” to the west inland areas. The Sulka tribe is made up of two (2) mother clans being Kaimun clan and the other as the Masra clan with Kaimun as the biggest clan in terms of population and area coverage. The Kaimun Clan leadership had started an initiative before I made contact with them to undertake a study or a documentation project in their attempt and effort driven by their desire for the cultural preservation and maintenance for intergenerational knowledge sharing and transfer within the Sulka tribe and its various clans. The primary focus was on the history of where the Sulka tribe originated from, how they settled and migrated to where they are today, its tribal clans’ structure and social organisation, how its cultural practices and systems, traditions, customs and society practices such as customary laws, rituals and sacred society came to being and the external influences of missionaries and colonisation to the Sulka people. From the 1970s’, there has been mixed collection from various sources of cassette audio and video tapes, photos, textual information of mixed content in traditional stories, history, life histories, traditional and present day customs/culture, missionary and colonisation history, music (song and dance – traditional and contemporary) and other general life or events stories. From the 1970s’, there has been mixed collection from various sources of cassette audio and video tapes, photos, textual materials and interviews of mixed content in traditional stories, history, life histories, traditional and present day customs/culture, missionary and colonisation history, music (song and dance – traditional and contemporary) and other general life or events stories. This collection is a contribution towards the preservation of general cultural knowledge of Sulka tribe and efforts to documenting the Kaimun clan.
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