PAPUA NEW GUINEA
DIANE SEVERYN MORRIS
“When you visit a community, walk in, don’t fly.” —A Papua New Guinea proverb
For all of my grandchildren... If you do nothing else—see the world!
PAPUA NEW GUINEA The Children The Tribes The Elders
DIANE SEVERYN MORRIS Photos taken in 2008 Copyright Š2012 Diane Severyn Morris. All rights reserved.
Papua New Guinea is mostly mountainous with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills. Most of the population lives in fertile highland valleys that were unknown to the outside world until the 1930s. There are approximately 860 languages spoken here. They produce coffee, cocoa, coconuts, palm oil, tea, and vanilla.
The diversity of the population of Papua New Guinea is reflected in a folk saying:
“For each village, a different culture.�
Please enjoy the photographs on the following pages reflecting multiple cultures of the people of Papua New Guinea.
We must go beyond text books, go into the depths of the wilderness travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey...
THE CHILDREN
THE TRIBES
THE ELDERS
THE END
Photography...a hobby.
Diane Severyn Morris was born in 1944 in Massachusetts where she spent her childhood. She enjoys world travel, gardening, and tending to her grandchildren. She presently resides in Vermont, South Carolina, Washington, DC and Naples, Florida.
My thanks to our forever special traveling companions: Pete & Betsy Forster and Hy & Phyllis Ackerman