No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1956-2016

MAKING MEN There are three significant phases of the initiation ritual and each of these phases is associated with three different kinds of ‘crocodiles’ that perform different kinds of things on the initiates . . . In my own experience as a bandi, I found that as I was leaving the ngeko, my mind raced back to all the experiences of the previous weeks and I was overwhelmed with an ambiguous combination of feelings, including joy and sadness, nostalgia and a profound sense of achievement that comes through endurance. ANDREW MOUTU Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership Amongst the Iatmul , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, pp.97–9.