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Moka culture of Mt Hagen

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Published: September 2022 By: John Joseph Ban/ Love Your A&C  The Moka ceremony is a gathering of all tribs with all there wealth in traditional cell money the kina show and valuable livestock pigs.    Moka is prestigious ceremony its a traditional banking system.      The Moka is a highly ritualistized system exchange in Mount Hagen area.New Guinea, that has become emblematic of the abthropological concept of gift econcmy and of Big man political system. Moka are reciprocal gifts of pigs through which social status is achieved.

Culture of PNG

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Published: September 2022 By: John Joseph Ban/ Love Your A&C  Papua New Guinea is full of wonder and mysterious to people outside of PNG.   Many explorers have travelled and ventured deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea and have found many different species of animal and insects.      Papua new guinea is known for its beautiful birds of paradise.         FUN FACT: Papua new guinea has over 800 languages alone. In Papua New Guinea, there are 4 regions- Momase, Highlands, Southern and New Guinea Islands. People from each region have different cultures and ways of life, thus make them unique.       Being different and having different cultures, is what makes PNG unique in its cultural diversity. The nation is home to many beautiful and unique animals, such as majority of the Bird of Paradise species and the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly. Overall, PNG is blessed with an abundance of beauty in its ...