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Bismarck Range mountains

Bride price ritual: bride with feather headdress, woven belt and armbands, shell valuables, and painted face

Mortuary ritual: people mourn a death, corpse wrapped for burial is carried by women

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

Siar Plantation, housing for manager

Bride price ritual: Wando leads group of decorated men with kundu drums

Bride price ritual: bride, wearing headdress and other finery, breastfeeds child

Tabibuga airstrip, airplane landing

Kwiop Yamba from Duwai B, image 3 left to right

Government-sponsored festival in Tabibuga: adolescent girl with tattooed face, snail shell earrings, trade beads, white powder on face and hair

Bismarck Range: forested slope, garden clearings on right

Bride price for Bints: groom's kin enter bride's village