The most primitive I can not tell when I had no more film. Then there is only one round - smooth - tree trunk over the water and if you're unlucky, you fall into the ditch, preferably well muddy. This bridge is an improvement.

The asphalt did not mean much: on the stone was just sprayed the tar

On the coast, today they are already working with heavy equipment.

Later it was already working, to make pavement, all crafts! If I'm not mistaken this place now (25 years later!) has a real asphalt road.

Watching his comrades, meanwhile, smoking a "straw". These cigarettes are made by tobacco rolled in a particular type of pandanus leaf and which is about thirty centimeters long.

The first attempt just outside Wamena, a "real" way to making. With a primitive digging stick was the same soil encountered. - Of course all this is somewhat different from our country. The entire country is practically inaccessible by lack of roads, not to talk about bridges.

Taken on the occasion of the ordination of a Florines - employed by the Roman Catholic Mission there are a lot Florinezen - By now, the pastoral service comes in the hands of the native people, which is normal.

A cemetery somewhere on a slope between Jayapura-city and "Base G". In the US period large numbers of troops landed on this beach. There is a coral shore and because this was inaccessible for the ships they used explosives to make a passage through the corals. This passage is still vissible to this day. Environmental fundamentalists would be horrified.

Commentaar maker foto: een graf kennelijk van een christen. Ook deze heeft voor alle zekerheid nog iets eigens meegekregen: een paar schoenen. En een dak boven je hoofd is ook mooi meegenomen. En dan te bedenken dat de overledene zijn hele leven geen schoenen gedragen heeft.

A grave in Enarotali. Apparently someone has given the deceased his plate to be sure. This plate is a sign of progress already, because usually people do not have such items in this area.