A New Guinea Sing Sing For Christmas

These are two of a series of four stamps to be released by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in Papua New Guinea on October 27 for use on the Christmas mail.

The stamps depict some of the colourful costumes worn by dancers at sing sings throughout PNG. The wierd costumes worn by the dancers are seen to advantage in the two stamps above—on the left, the Tubuan dance, with three whirling figures dancing the Siaa dance on the right. The 7c stamp shows a Siaa dancer and the 9c a Tubuan dancer. They are designed by the Australian artist, Nancy Hays and printed multicolour photogravure by Helio Courvoisier of Switzerland.