This quest is one highlight of the annual Hiri Moale Festival held by the Motu and Koitabu people in Port Moresby.
More importantly, it focuses on the female ancestors who played a special role in the history, as Nou Pipi, 2017 HMF coordinator, explains.
Pipi says the Hanenamos were the newly-married women or those just about to get married to a young man on board the Lagatoi (traditional Motuan voyage canoe).
“They kept their fingers crossed the entire process,” he says.
