papua new guinea T-Shirt

Flag of Papua New Guinea. The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half. The symbol in the middle is of a crossed cog wheel (representing workers and industry) and machete (representing the peasantry) with a gold star. Red and black have long been traditional colours of many Papua New Guinean tribes. Black-white-red was the colour of the German Empire's flag, which had colonised New Guinea prior to 1918. The bird of paradise is also found on the national coat-of-arms.