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The Western District Highlands Show at Mt. Hagen, NG, has be come an international attraction.
More than 70,000 natives, Territorians and visitors from all over the world turned up for the latest spectacle in the centre of New Guinea—a colourful pot-pourri of primitive warriors, gaudily painted girls in shining pig grease, valuable shell and fantastic Bird of Paradise plumes. Many put down their stone axes and spears to ride bicycles around the ring, or vie with former enemies at the end of a cross-cut saw.
Among the display stands was a gruesome gentleman from Lagaip who had died some time before, and whose body had been left, local fashion (now discouraged by the Administration) on a sloping platform for 12 months before burial. At the show, in his gaudily painted coffin, he was welcomed as a primitive work of art.