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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Hunting: Akis in a tree, holding macheteUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea -
Woman works on a woven item around kina shell necklaceUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Bomagai: woman, wearing clay as sign of mourning, and young child peer through fenceUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: decorated men have run from behind ritual fence, dance to gate to dig up cordyline rootsUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Gunts: luluai (government-appointed leader) with nose ornament, marsupial fur headdressUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Returned laborers, purification ritual: laborers (left) by house they have builtUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, singsing, Tsembaga hosts Tsengamp: women wearing shell valuables, one woman carries a pigUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pete Vayda with men at top of hillUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Gardening: kangup (Cyathea Cyatheaceae), edible tree fern in pandanus groveUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Bride price ritual: feeding blood pudding to bride's kinUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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YawsUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, fertility ritual: Tsendikai whispers ancestor's names into bamboo tube of waterUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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