Rare sight: Asaro Mud Men from the Asaro Valley in Papua New Guinea performing – for the first time outside their home – their rituals for visitors at the Australian Museum in Sydney. — AFP
Sydney: Wearing grotesque masks and with their bodies covered in grey clay, four “Mud Men” from the Asaro Valley in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands dance slowly in the mist, long bamboo tubes extending from their fingers.
The ghostly dance took place not in their native Komunive village, but at the Australian Museum in Sydney yesterday.
