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Chambri Lake Villages

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Chambri Lake Villages, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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[Hook with typical face: 9k]

The Chambri Lakes are rich in fish and bird life. Chambri women trade their dried fish as far as Maprik and Wewak while the men market their carvings all over Papua New Guinea. The Chambri camps in the metropolitan areas also carve, so if there are a few carvings in a shop, the odds are that they will be a Chambri ones.

The carvers make a variety of finely carved and brightly painted small masks, hooks, decorative spears and crocodile carvings. The Windjammer Hotel in Wewak sometimes has an artifact market outside in the evening and the sellers are primarily from the Wewak Chambri Camp. The camp also has a haus win (ramada) with plaited bags and bilums along Boram Road and several tables in the Wewak Market.

See also: Chambri Pottery

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Browze Sepik River villages - Middle Sepik: Aibom | Chambri Lakes | Kamindimbit | Kandangai | Kanganaman | Koiwat and Kamangauwi | Korogo | Mindimbit | Mumeri | Palambei | Tambanum | Yamok | Yentchan | Yenichenmangua | see also Karawari and Blackwater Rvs | above Pagwi: Ambunti Mtns (Waskuk) | Hunstein | Japandai | near Angoram and below: Angoram | Imbando and Taway | Kambaramba | see also Ramu Rv

[Map of the middle length of the Sepik River, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: 9k]

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