“Bomana Nights”:http://bomana.blogspot.com/ has some “excellent pictures”:http://bomana.blogspot.com/2005/06/line-up.html (this post and the ones one either side of it) of the line up for one of PNG’s beauty pageant/fund raisers — I believe this is one of the run-ups to Miss PNG. When I was in PNG I actually _knew_ the woman who won one year. The way this genre of contest has been customized in PNG is just so typical of the country, and the pictures are so evocative of a sort of middle-class semi-urban existence (if Bombex counts as semi-urban!) life style that you so rarely read about in ethnographies of PNG, but which I and so many other people remember so fondly.
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I think the school who are having this quest are not even helping with the red cross. They are juust doing it for the sake of doing it.
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