Monday, 7 September 2015

Faith and Nature - Papua New Guinea


Faith- Papua New Guinea 

Poroiba Wigschool 

The wigmen of the Huli people aren't like western toupee manufacturers. They are wizards who only work with people who have fine heads of hair. What a traditional wigman does is use ancient magic to make hair grow faster than normal so it can be cut off and turned into a wig. Evidently magic - like hair restorers - doesn't work if the hair is long gone.

Goroka- De Biami Tribe

The tribesman suggests a forest spirit for those under the spell of a giant snake. This tribe lives in the Parentracy forests of the Western Province. 
"...wherever there is multiplicity, you will also find an exceptional individual, and it is with that individual that an alliance must be made in order to become animal. There may be no such thing as a lone wolf, but there is a leader of the pack, a master of the pack...

-Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 1992

"... a decidedly ambivalent relationship to the natural world, simultaneously in awe of it's beauty, fascinated by it's strangeness and seduced by it's cruelty..." 

Head Decoration
http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/128594949445/070915

Decorative Sheild
http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/128595044185/070915-decorative-sheild

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