BILAS, Traditional Jewelry in Papua New Guinea

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Bilas (Pisin from the English word flash): finery, ornaments, jewelry, decoration, showy clothes, bilas bilong singsing - ornaments worn at a dance.

• Shells are Gold
  Kinas | Toeas | More Shell Bilas
• Tooth and Bone
• String and Things

A Miss Goroka Princess contestant wears necklaces made of multiple strands of dog teeth.

SEE ALSO:

Links in this site:

• Barkcloth (tapa), Oro Province, PNG
• Bundi barkcloth butterfly dancers, Madang Province, PNG
• Painted Faces - Beauty and Power
  Photography Portfolio by Scott Perry from the Mt. Hagen Show, PNG
  Pigment, Oil, Skin - Body Painting at the Mt. Hagen and Goroka Shows, PNG
• Phallocrypts from Papua (Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea

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Artifacts on this site are collected in the field by my husband, Ron Perry. I take the photographs, do the html, text and maps. More background in Who We Are. Art-Pacific has been on the WWW since 1996. We hope you enjoy our New Guinea tribal art and Indonesian folk art as much as we do. Carolyn Leigh, P.O. Box 85284,Tucson, AZ 85754-5284 USA, Art-Pacific at http://www.art-pacific.com/