https://www.christopherdavenport.online/home daily 1.0 2020-10-27 https://www.christopherdavenport.online/bio daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://www.christopherdavenport.online/reviews daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://www.christopherdavenport.online/contact daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://www.christopherdavenport.online/thetincancrucible daily 0.75 2020-09-13 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/t/5f5b6956768c8d18d581fb01/1599993047528/The+Tin+Can+Crucible+cover.jpg The Tin Can Crucible - The Tin Can Crucible The nation of Papua New Guinea remains one the last true frontiers on Earth. Most of the residents of its mountainous interior, known as the Highlands, live in bush material huts, without electricity or running water. They subsist on what they grow in their gardens, gather in the forest, or hunt with bows and arrows. When I arrived in a village in the Papua New Guinean Highlands as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1994, I experienced a way of life that has changed little in thousands of years. I settled with a host family, began learning the language, and became close with the people there. When a venerated elder died, the distraught villagers accused a neighboring woman of killing him by sorcery. In the days and weeks that followed, I was confronted with the fact that the people to whom I had grown close were neither as simple nor as pure as I had wanted to believe. In their capacity for endless patience and remarkable kindness, as well as unspeakable brutality, I came to recognize the complexity, the frailty, and even the humanity, of the people with whom I was living. https://www.christopherdavenport.online/photos daily 0.75 2021-01-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b57/1611691558894/Davenport%2B08.jpg Photos From right to left - Papa, me, Mama, and Gilbert https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b53/1611691790982/Davenport+05.jpeg Photos From right to left, Mama, Gilbert, me, and a cousin. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/60107806521390702d5c7ced/1611692074847/Davenport+07.jpeg Photos My ceremonial bilas, January 1995 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b32/1611691652905/Heinz+03.jpg Photos Village homes, photo credit Dieter Heinz https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b3b/1611691938551/Bonzelet+09.jpg Photos The volunteers and trainers of Peace Corps Papua New Guinea, Group 25 on the grounds of Kefamo https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b41/1611691716183/Bonzelet+04.jpg Photos Village homestay family. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b30/1611691644402/Heinz+06.jpg Photos Coffee is one of the principle cash crops of the Papua New Guinean Highlands. Here, the fresh-picked beans are being dried. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b34/1611691677541/Heinz+07.jpg Photos Child in a village garden. Photo credit - Dieter Heinz https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b3f/1611692008584/Bonzelet+13.jpg Photos Mountain village outside of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b47/1611692012346/Bonzelet+14.jpg Photos Mountain village outside of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b43/1611692045619/Bonzelet+15.jpg Photos Mountain village outside of Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b45/1611692237863/Bonzelet+16.jpg Photos Villager playing a mouth harp. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b49/1611692260115/Cochran+02+-+Goroka+Market.jpg Photos The main outdoor market in downtown Goroka. Photo credit - David Cochran https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b4b/1611692300689/Cochran+03.jpg Photos Village roundhouse, outside Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province. Photo credit - David Cochran https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b55/1611692391322/Cochran+04.jpg Photos Preparing for a traditional feast, known as a mumu. Photo credit - David Cochran https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b3d/1611691959511/Bonzelet+12.jpg Photos Preparing for a traditional feast, known as a mumu. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b36/1611691831179/Bonzelet+07.jpg Photos Preparing for a traditional feast, known as a mumu. Photo credit - Tim Bonzelet https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b4f/1611692395365/Cochran+05.jpg Photos Preparing for a traditional feast, known as a mumu. Photo credit - David Cochran https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b4d/1611692431603/Cochran+10.jpg Photos Volunteer Corey Michaud, far right, and me, far left, with our host families. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f43e56c1629fb33d2daeb44/601075d4d588d139db112b2e/601075d4d588d139db112b51/1611692458108/Cochran+14.jpg Photos Village wedding, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit - David Cochran