Photo of the Day 202

Huli Tribesmen, Papua New Guinea, 2000

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Decked out in elaborate costumes, striking facial paint, and wigs of human hair, the men of the Huli tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea prepare for a sing-sing, an annual festival of clan pride. Together, the men preen, strut, shimmy, and shake their feathered costumes, mimicking the local birds of paradise.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Enigma of Beauty," January 2000, National Geographic magazine)