The next day we walked in a westerly direction to Uvai, just a few hours away. Uvai lies in a small valley and upon our arrival the people were anxious to show us something. They led us away from the village houses and into a clearing to show us the remains of a small engine block. We had no idea what it was from or how it had gotten there.
Years later Pat Smith, an Australian fellow missionary, was with me at Uvai and I showed him the engine block. He said it was from a Tiger Moth aircraft that was used during the war as a reconnaissance plane.
We saw men carrying stone axes and wearing woven bark string capes that hung from their shoulders down to their heels. There were all kinds of colorful feather headdresses and yellow possum’s fur on the men’s heads. Men and women alike wore different kinds of shells as decorations.
Tiger Moth aircraft used during the war as a reconnaissance plane.
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