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Susan Pflanz-Cook at Mendana Hotel, Honiara

Courtship: decorated adolescent girls in front of the Cooks' house, mother and child look inside house

Village on mountain slope, view from above

Kwiop Yamba from Duwai B, image 1 left to right

Pig festival, wig ritual: Wan at presentation of wigged men

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: decorated clan members dance while plant is uprooted in men's house clearing

Mount Hagen show: men in traditional wigs and other finery

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: decorated allies cut down casuarina tree, re-enacting killing of an enemy

Pig festival, pig sacrifice preparations: Kolip and Kent blow spells on gate posts for ritual fence through which allies will be fed

Returned laborers, purification ritual: returnee kills pig, watched by others

Bride price ritual: bride is fed by groom's kin

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: allies enter the dance grounds, led by men with weapons