Nondugl Wear-More-Wool Campaign

THIS is what the well-dressed New Guinea, Highland matron and her infant will be wear ing this year (it is hoped). The bilum (string bag, suspended from the head) is for the infant; the short, chain-mail, jerkin arrange ment is for Mumma.

Bilums are the usual cradles of NG infants, but the new thing about this outfit is that it is made from Nondugl wool and, as such, supplies warmth. Miss W. M. Archer, also shown in the photograph, is a handicraft instructor of the P-NG

Department of Education; she went to the Highlands to find the best use to which Nondugl wool could be put for native purposes.

NG Highland women usually wear a couple of bunches of green leaves fore and aft, or some yards of string mesh in strategic positions, and one might imagine that the wool garments would be welcomed in that alpine climate. However, when it comes to dress-reform, these people show about as much enthusiasm as do male Europeans who swelter in navy-blue serge suits in an Australian summer.