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Carolyn Leigh and Ron Perry in the hill country of the Maprik-Wosera area, part of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, in the late 1980's.

The painted sago bark panels on the right (pangals) decorate this Abelam village's house fronts. The ancestral figures (Nggwalndu) on the left are from the men's Haus Tambaran. The pigments are almost all natural ones from the surrounding jungle.

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