Fashions in Headgear...
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...and one in Faces
It has been a wet wet-season in Lae, New Guinea (Lae has its "wet" when the rest of the Territory has its "dry"). These photo graphs, taken recently at a Saturday morning market, by our New Guinea representative,
Miss Pat Robertson, show how the local natives are coping with it.
At extreme left, the Laughing Cavalier type.
Centre, Let-nature-be-your-friend: A large taro leaf used as an umbrella. Right: The Mixture-
As-Before. Time has changed some things i NG (Junior wears a hula-shirt) but Mum sti carries the firewood, the vegetables and maybe the family pig in a bilum dangling from he head.
An interesting piece of hedge-clipping gives these whiskers a distinguished look —and is this native's way of coping with the cool season. Pity the damp has made that sweater shrink, though. Our friend has been getting in the week-end supply of betel-nut.