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Fern tattoo

Two young men from the village of Kinakatem (Sepik Province) present their interpretation of drawings of plant material conserved in the Oceania Collection of the Dahlem Museum of Berlin (Germany). According to them, these paintings are representations of designs produced by application of the underside of a fern frond (vuvreng), which deposits its white colored spores onto skin.
Papua New Guinea (2007).

© Christian Coiffier




Two young men from the village of Kinakatem (Sepik Province) present their interpretation of drawings of plant material conserved in the Oceania Collection of the Dahlem Museum of Berlin (Germany).
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