NewGuineaCraft.com.au
Title
New Guinea Craft
Description
New Guinea Craft is a business owned and operated by James Brown and his wife Mary Burt who with their four young children now live in Canberra Australia. James and Mary worked as volunteers in Aitape, Papua New Guinea, which is near the Indonesian border. Aitape is close to the area where in 1998 a huge 10-meter high tidal wave or Tsunami swept in from the sea and killed 2200 village people who lived on the coast near the Sissino area.
James was responsible for the K1.56 million European Union funded building project in the tsunami areas building new schools and teachers houses in these remote areas where building materials needed to be shipped in using banana boats and canoes through the dangerous entrance to the Sissano lagoon called the Otto. The gravel for the cement (some 60 tonns) was first put into sacks and carried in banana boats through the lagoon waterways and then carried by long lines of village women ( Mothers groups) for several kilometres to the building sites using the Limbum ( a back pack made from limbum tree). The timber and other building material was transported using local youth groups.
New Guinea Craft is involved in setting up networks of craftspeople in remote areas of Papua New Guinea. Local coordinators work with the weavers and craftspeople in their local areas to manufacture Bilums (traditional shoulder bag), baskets, clay cooking pots, and other artefacts. These products are sold in Australia and other overseas countries.
Additional Information
Related Domains
- Accessories
- Artefacts
- Baby Accessories
- Baby Bag
- Baby Supplies
- Bag Lady
- Bag Shops
- Bag Stores
- Baskets
- Beach Bag
- Bilum
- Bilum Bag
- Bilum Bags
- Buka Baskets
- Carry Bags
- Clothing
- Clothing Accessories
- Custom And Handmade
- Diaper Bag
- Diaper Bags
- Fashion Bag
- Fashion Bags
- Hand Crafted Products
- Hand Made
- Handbags And Purses
- Handicraft Items
- Handmade Bags
- Jungle Products
- Natural Fibres
- Natural Products
- Nursing Mothers
- Paper Carry Bags
- Papua New Guinea
- Png Products
- Primitive Craft
- Rainforest Products
- Retail Bags
- Save The Forests
- Shopping
- Shopping Bag
- Shopping Bags
- Shoulder Bags
- South Pacific Craft
- String Bags
- Surf Gear
- Tapa Cloth
- Travel Bags
- Travel Luggage
- Tribal Crafts
- Twine Bags
- Village Crafts
- Weavers
- Weaving
- Women's Bags
- Women's Fashion
- Women's Shoulder Bags
- Women Fashion
- Womens Dress
- Womens Jeans
- Womens Suits
- Custom and Handmade
- Handbags and Purses