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- Highlands Ceremonial Headdresses and Wigs: The best-known part of the collection. Feathers, shells and woven bases show how each group signals status, and seeing them still makes festival costumes much easier to read.
- Carved Shields and Weapons: Bows, arrows, clubs and painted shields from different valleys. Look at the patterns and the wear, because these were made for use.
- Stone Tools and Axe Heads: Polished blades hafted on wooden handles, a reminder that stone technology was in daily use in the Highlands well into the twentieth century.
- First-Contact Era Photographs: Black-and-white images from patrols into the Highlands valleys. The expressions on both sides of the camera make these the most absorbing items in the building.
- Wartime Relics: Items left from the Pacific war, linking Goroka’s
- Highlands Ceremonial Headdresses and Wigs: The best-known part of the collection. Feathers, shells and woven bases show how each group signals status, and seeing them still makes festival costumes much easier to read.
- Carved Shields and Weapons: Bows, arrows, clubs and painted shields from different valleys. Look at the patterns and the wear, because these were made for use.
- Stone Tools and Axe Heads: Polished blades hafted on wooden handles, a reminder that stone technology was in daily use in the Highlands well into the twentieth century.
- First-Contact Era Photographs: Black-and-white images from patrols into the Highlands valleys. The expressions on both sides of the camera make these the most absorbing items in the building.
- Wartime Relics: Items left from the Pacific war, linking Goroka’s airfield and the surrounding hills to the larger conflict. Small, rusty and quietly sobering.
- Sepik and Coastal Masks: Carved faces from outside the Highlands add contrast, showing how different artistic traditions look when placed side by side.
- Bilums and Woven Craft: String bags and woven pieces, the everyday objects you will see carried all over the country. The displays show how they are made and used.
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Hi, I’m Johan (Netherlands 🇳🇱), the creator of TakeYourBackpack. Over the past 3 decades, I’ve backpacked through 90+ countries across six continents, gaining extensive experience with independent travel, long-term trips, and overland routes.