Living TRAVEL - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
 

TROBRIAND ISLANDS

The Village - featuring the socially important Yam Culture 
 


A typical village on the Trobriands
A row of residential houses in the background, yam houses in the foreground
 

 

The yam houses are more decorative than the residential houses
 

Bringing in the yams
 

Sorting the yams
 
Decorations on a yam house - and below
 

 

Village scene - and below
 

 

House building in progress

Evening in the Trobriands


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