1.13 Good company among children: young boys play on a log. Gebusi children often play on their own in the rainforest near the village. |
2.13 Sanip, a young girl, drinks from a tranquil stream in the rainforest. |
2.24 A woman’s “carrying capacity”: A woman, Sefomay, comes back to Yibihilu from the forest in late afternoon. She is loaded with two net bags on top of which sits her young son, Mako, who wears his own small net bag. Leaves on Sefomay’s forehead and a bark cape on her back help cushion the weight of her heavy load. Net bags that women weave from forest fibers are a prime element of Gebusi material culture |
3.1 Eileen holds a baby. Many Gebusi infants died. |
7.13 A new generation of children in Gasumi Corners |
7.16 Gwabi, 1998, proudly holding his young son. |
9.13 Schoolboy aspiration #1: A boy draws a picture of himself as a soldier in the future. Almost half the boys drew pictures of themselves as soldiers or a policemen. The choices of the other boys favored occupations such as piloting planes or helicopters and driving heavy trucks or operating equipment. Unfortunately, almost no boys will have the educational skills or opportunities to attain these jobs in fact; virtually all village youth will grow up to be "unemployed farmers." |
9.14 Schoolboy aspiration #2: A boy draws a picture of himself as a soldier. |
9.15 Schoolboy aspiration #3: A boy draws a picture of himself as a soldier. |
9.16 Schoolboy aspiration #4: A boy draws a picture of himself as a policeman catching a criminal. |
9.17 Schoolboy aspiration #5: A boy draws a picture of himself as a policeman catching a criminal |
9.18 Schoolboy aspiration #6: A schoolboy draws a picture of himself as a member of the Papua New Guinea police force |
9.20 Schoolboy aspiration #7: A boy draws a picture of himself as a mine worker operating heavy equipment in the future |
9.21 Schoolboy aspiration #8: A boy draws a picture of himself as a helicopter pilot in the future. Note the long straight hair and light skin of the pilot; many of the pilots who fly to nomad are Australians. |
9.22 Schoolboy aspiration #9: A boy draws a picture of himself as a singer in the future |
9.23 Schoolgirl aspiration #1: A schoolgirl draws a picture of herself as a “woman” (housewife) in the future. Note the absence of a mouth in the woman's face; does this indicate the presumed "voicelessness" of modern wives? The number of girls who submitted drawings was two-thirds that of the boys (40 versus 64). The school enrollment of girls in the grades that submitted drawings (grades 2-5) was only about half that of boys (53 versus 102 students). |
9.24 Schoolgirl aspiration #2: A girl draws a picture of herself as a teacher in the future |
9.25 Schoolgirl aspiration #3: A girl draws a picture of herself as a teacher in the future |
9.26 Schoolgirl aspiration #4: A girl draws a picture of herself as a nurse in the future |
9.27 Schoolgirl aspiration #5: A girl draws a picture of herself as a nurse in the future |
9.28 Schoolgirl aspiration #6: A girl draws a picture of herself as ascending to heaven in the future. Note to viewers: This drawing closely parallels the poster of Christian conversion shown in photo in the eleventh web-photo of chapter 8. |
11.3 Sayu playing in the forest with a toy bow and arrow, 1981. At close range, he would often shoot at grasshoppers or butterflies. |
11.4 Sayu showing us a grasshopper he has shot with his bow and arrow, 1981 |
11.56 A boy who is too young to be a first-stage initiate is dressed in yellow initiation costuming at Nomad on Independence Day, 1998 |
12.7 A woman and her son from Gasumi Corners watch traditional dancing at the final feast | | | |
