Islands

Pacific

Monthly

July, 1953

Vol. Xxiii. No. 12

TO 1

transmiss\on by post as a newspaper]

THIS is the

Church choir of the Lon on Missionary Society at Hanua [?]ada Village, near Port Moresby. Al though the male Papuans are the most dressed of all Papua - New Guinea natives (they settle for a lava-lava on the New Guinea side, while the Papuans often wear long trousers and a shirt) the young Papuan women still wear only a grass skirt. The Papuan girls have good figures, a graceful carriage and, with their pale skin, are much prettier than their New Guinea sisters who wear an unbecom ing Mother Hub bard and rarely merit a second glance. Papuan girls get plenty of glances.

Photo by Bernd Lohse.