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Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: decorated men plant cordyline and stakes, establishing enemy boundary

Before distributing pork and vegetables, a headman offers a blessing learned from Protestant missionaries

Bride price ritual: man wearing hornbill beak ornaments places wealth objects in leaf packet

Newly adopted Papua New Guinea flag raised at Erave patrol post, watched by crowd including decorated men and saluting patrol officer

Gift exchange in the Mendi Valley : an examination of the socio-political implications of the ceremonial exchange of wealth among the people of Mendi Valley, Southern Highlands District, Papua

Ritual exchange: men with strand of cowrie shells

Mortuary ceremony: mourning women, skins blackened with ash, at exchange of banana leaf bundles

Kwiop, garden marked with downed trees

Patrol Reports. Chimbu District, Kundiawa, 1953 - 1954

Tabibuga airstrip, airplane taking off

Gardening: distant view of fenced garden clearings, Tuguma

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: decorated men give bundles of salted pork to allies on other side of ritual fence