UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
We maintain the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology, a repository of research materials created by anthropologists & other scholars documenting the cultures of the
southwest Pacific Islands.
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Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: a man displays shell valuables on a marsupial skin, potential exchange partners nearbyUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea -
Gardening: man builds sturdy fence to keep pigs out of gardenUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Late afternoon gathering at Iapi, in garden, small mountains in distanceUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in ancestral shrine,men truss a pig, above ground oven at rightUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Returned laborers, purification ritual: returned laborer, in purchased clothing, is tenderly greeted by a kinsmanUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Funeral: woman with clay on skin (sign of mourning) prepares yellow pandanusUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: decorated Tsembaga men with ritual items to expel enemy spirits and establish boundaryUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Dispute in Tuguma: Krp (right) gives his response to Mbi's accusationsUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Visiting decorated participants parade in ritual finery, carrying banners of currencyUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, singsing, Kwiop: ritual at men's house, decorated men with feather headdressesUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in the ancestral shrine, leaf-wrapped bundles of food are cooked over fireUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: allies carry cut casuarina tree, symbolizing dead enemy, on dance groundUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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