Archive for May 2015
Unchartered Territory
(Navyn) Just south of the equator and north of Australia, lies one of the last unchartered territories on earth, Papua New Guinea. On a map it resembles a prehistoric dinosaur and is the second largest island after Greenland. This country and it’s seven million people were not known to the white man until 1930 because…
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(Maya) Weddings in Papua New Guinea are very different than in the US. We visited two villages and learned about the wedding customs. Many men in PNG have 2 or more wives. We met a village chief who has 5 wives. He said he was around the age of 80. One of his wives is…
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