There are approximately 1,600 Hewa people who occupy a large rugged, broken and heavily timbered region along the lower Lagaip river and its tributaries in the far north-west areas of the Enga and Southern Highland provinces of Papua New Guinea.

The man from Hewa wears the woven conical wig of his particular clan. The fur pelt is adorned with white cockatoo feathers which are secured with wires and dance about as he moves.

Fastened around his neck is a woven cape to which is attached a cascade of feathers from the egret, white cockatoo and black butcherbird.

The Hewa man's face has been blackened with soot mixed in oil from the rare tigoso tree and dabs of clay and ochres complete his body marking.

White reed heads held in bamboo arm bands whisper as he walks and a thin bandolier of pit pit seeds slides across his chest.

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