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Imbando and Taway Villages

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Imbando and Taway Villages, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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Imbando and Taway are a short motor canoe trip down from Angoram. This lower part of the Sepik widens out and is lined with long expanses of pitpit, wild sugar cane, (Saccharum spontaneum) which may be the parent plant for domestic sugar cane. Pitpit is used for small fences and for walls in the stilt houses.

The villages are back in side channels off the main course of the Sepik. In these smaller channels and narrow barets the canoes pass close to the vine-draped jungle. Metallic blue and butter yellow butterflies flutter past. Small green parrots and black cockatoos chatter in the canopy. Poking up through the jungle are flowering crests of the sago palms. Crocodiles are too wary to bask in the sun on the banks, but the villagers' crocodile prow canoes cluster along the bank below the temporary gardens and camps cut back into the cane.

The traditional red and black Imbando spirit mask curves in very subtle planes. Newer masks are more likely to have complex additional details and some of the elegant simplicity is lost.

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Browze Sepik River villages - Middle Sepik: Aibom | Chambri Lakes | Kamindimbit | Kandangai | Kanganaman | Koiwat and Kamangauwi | Korogo | Mindimbit | Mumeri | Palambei | Tambanum | Yamok | Yentchan | Yenichenmangua | see also Karawari and Blackwater Rvs | above Pagwi: Ambunti Mtns (Waskuk) | Hunstein | Japandai | near Angoram and below: Angoram | Imbando and Taway | Kambaramba | see also Ramu Rv

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