Taily your mention of wake reminds me of an interesting couple of trips into Omkalai I did in 1970. the head man & his wife had been killed in a motor accident east of Goroka on the highlands highway. I was with Macair based Goroka at the time,got the job of taking the coffins to Omkalai took the wife first (c206) huge crowd on arrival all in arse grass&feathers woman waling covered in white ash,back to Goroka for the head man arrive Omkalai the crowd bigger 2000+ emotion electric,an expertence I will never forget, ahhhh PNG
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