Photographed 1988 - Mamiya RB67 - 90mm lens - negative sitting rolled and not viewed since processing - scanned in today - Image From Research Trip looking at the depth of Melanesian cultural practises. The man has had his nose pierced in childhood to change him culturally from being view as female (the nose bleed ritual - bleeds what is considered as female blood from him - and initiates him into what is the beginning of male knowledge) This man has been initiated highly, identified in cultural objects.