Curator Barbara Stone along with Neltje and Mary Jane Edwards discuss the exhibition, Journeys along the Sepik River: Tribal Art from Papua New Guinea. Images: Left: Middle Sepik Mask (Papua New ...

Until November 1. Paki (guardian figure), early 20th century in Myth + Magic: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea at the National Gallery of Australia. In 1929 the Surrealist Map of the World ...

Myth and Magic: Art of the Sepik River includes 85 works drawn from collections in Australia and PNG and many have never been seen publicly before. Included in the Canberra exhibition are tribal ...

Hobart-born Heathcote's dive into the muddy, infested Sepik River to save an art collecting Manhattan heiress while he was a district inspector in New Guinea is said to have have given him entree ...

Belly art a moving experience for pregnant moms In these tribes found near the Sepik River, which flows through the northern part of Papua New Guinea, a young person will go into initiation — a ...

Art, spirituality and the economy are intrinsically entwined in Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River region. In the spirit house men are still initiated, art and music are made and village disputes ...

"Our guests get an opportunity to purchase investment-quality Sepik River art and villages upriver get some benefit from our visits." The impact is measurable: the incidence of malaria has ...

Desperately lonely, he convinces them to return to the Sepik River with him, and promises to find them a new tribe to study. Soon Nell and Fen are settled in by a lake with the fictitious Tam ...