ABSTRACT
The village of Kambot lies on the banks of the river Keram, one of the lowest tributaries of the Sepik in the East Sepik Province, subdistrict of Angoram. Storyboards are carved and painted wooden boards which depict mythological stories or everyday scenes. These boards have been produced since the 1970s by artists of Kambot Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province for sale to tourists and art dealers. As in many other villages on the river, the Kambots live on sago and fish, and during the dry season they work in their gardens until the arrival of the flood. In fact the village is flooded for a few months in the rainy season and the canoe is the only means of transport. Anyway, both travellers and tourists visiting Papua New Guinea want to have an 'authentic' experience, or at least, they want to believe that they have had an 'authentic' experience.
