Papua New Guinea Tambanum is the biggest village on the river with a large group of active carvers.
Many younger men go to work in the towns, mines and plantations.
They form large camps in the coastal cities where they also carve and market their work. Mask with clan motifs. Similar designs are painted on the participants' faces during ceremonies. In Port Moresby, they carve other villages' marks as well as their own extensive traditional repertoire. A number of their village masks are illustrated in our article on Masks from the Middle Sepik River .