Exploring the Sounds of Papua

SILENCE creeps up the small village in Papua as an old man works on a piece of wood fashioning a musical instrument. Children, dressed in koteka (penis gourds) and feather-crested hats, break the silence with singing and dancing.

“Away you go, I’m finishing this piece of musical instrument,” the old man shoos the children away to no avail. Instead, they pull him up to join in the singing and dancing to the drumbeats of tifa.

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