Population, festivals, dances


Festivals attract a many and coloured population, with a very varied ethnos groups, of which Kanaks which which lives much outside, French of the former colony and mongrel, French from metropolis, Indonesians and Vietnamese, Polynesians (of which much Wallisians (*), scarce English of the close islands or elsewhere, Europeans, Chinese but not as much as the are in Tahiti where they "were imported" for the labour.

We are at the beginning of the hot period (late October); here is the occasion to check that clothing is very simple here, excepted some audacities on Tee-shirts.

The mission dresses  of the "popinées" (the kanak ladies), including young people, do not seem outdated. Their usage goes up with English missionaries (Anglicans naturally), who did not appreciate these bodies a little too naked. Sign of the times, the kanakes now prohibit to discover the breast (and the lower part), apart from the great beaches of Nouméa, and say wisely, "you obliged us to cover ourselves, then now, act in the same way ! "

(*) community which poses problem with the kanaks in some areas, for territorial right. What leads to serious scuffles, as what occured in the north of Nouméa.

Do not await after Tahitians tunes andd songs ; here, it is the "pilou pilou" and one hops !

 Undoubtedly by nostalgia of a certain past, the noses crossed by a bone get again in fashion, but with the form of piercings..  happily,  kanaks seem preserved from that. It's surrealist !.

Tahitians with the flower at their ear.

. Two unusual mission dresses : left hand a very modern, the right one inspired  from old engravings or tapas material.

It seems to me that there is a certain shift towards the tahitian, more "touristic" that the kanak pilou pilou . It is as true that in the eastern islands, contacts with Polynesians had been frequent. The Polynesian community is present in the whole Pacific, from the New Zeland up to Los Angeles.

A very smart dress mission.

Blondes with blue eyes are rare in the country but one can meet kanaks with blue eyes, especially in the eastern islands, mark of the genetic passage of English missionnairies.

Knowledge of the country. Scarce were the French pioneers who did not have an indigenous descent, at least "those of the bush" who worked the grounds allotted by the government with the kanaks. The life was not precisely what the tourists can see now.

Many "zoreilles" (French metropolitan), not accustomed, sent working in bush far from Nouméa or tempted by adventure, got back from there depressed so much the living conditions were difficult. As often, the wifes suffered more.

English Conquest.  Approached by the north, the New Caledonia kanak remains strongly marked by the English presence. Some families remained there and the names with an English consonance are not rare, like the ohlen or other Nixons. In the north, both community existed peacefully in the past, each one with their own territory.

 

 

 

 

Coconut square (place des cocotiers). Joung Kanak having a light meal, at midday.

At the market of Npuméa, a spot one can attend with a great pleasure. .

Rodeo. a popular spectacle, "in the bush", nearly everywhere along the West coast, even not far from Nouméa. True rodeos in the American way (extensive horse breeding originating here from Australia). Gauchos are said "stockmen" there.
 

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