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Kwiop dance groundsUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea -
Pig festival, pig sacrifice preparations: elevated food storage structures built for pig festivalUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Bride price ritual: banner with feather and shell valuables will be given to the bride's kinUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Canoe-building: Gisigesi uses axe to smooth a piece of wood for outrigger frame, he smokesUC San Diego, The UC San Diego LibraryImage Papua New Guinea
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Bridge-building: construction of bridge base and supporting latchesUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Patrol Reports. Central District, Kupiano, 1970-1971UC San Diego, The UC San Diego LibraryText Papua New Guinea -
Mortuary ceremony: woman counts banana leaf bundles for exchange ritualUC San Diego, The UC San Diego LibraryImage Papua New Guinea
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Women and children eat while dog watchesUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Patrol Reports. East Sepik District, Wewak, 1959 - 1960UC San Diego, The UC San Diego LibraryText Papua New Guinea
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Girl sits on tree stump next to the Hutchins' houseUC San Diego, The UC San Diego LibraryImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, wig ritual: hair is fastened to wig frameUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: butchering body of a female pig that has been sacrified to spririts of high groundUC San Diego, Special Collections and ArchivesImage Papua New Guinea
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