This exhibition brochure introduces a general audience to fibre skirts & carved bark belts from the southeast coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Today people in PNG wear Western styles of clothing, however, in many areas traditional clothing, body decorations and dancing are used to mark special occasions. Historic photos and museum objects show that there are differences between old and present-day traditional artefacts. As lives and circumstances changed some things cease to have relevance for people, bark belts, appear to have fallen out of use by the late 1930s, while others, such as fibre skirts, continue to be made and used. The text proposes that aesthetic and material change in traditional things can show cultural continuity and that innovation and reinterpretation need not be seen as a loss of authenticity, as it is so often framed.