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Local government council meeting at Tabibuga

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kwiop: war ally fed salted pork belly through ritual fence

Pig festival, preparations: men's house (r) and small house for sacred stones (r), elevated food storage (background)

Bride price for Maima: man prepares food which will be included in exchange

Pig festival, singsing preparations: men use stakes and cordyline to expel enemy spirits from path which allies must travel

Momote runway, Manus Island, aerial view

Bride price for Maima: Molo the groom's group dances with payment banner of feather and shell valuables for bride's clan

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: man holds bespelled stakes wrapped in banana leaves, to be planted at clan boundary

Pig festival, singsing: Wando, wearing eagle feather headdress, holds a drum

Women with netbags of produce wait for Nancy Cook to give them salt in exchange

Bridge in Jimi River area

Returned laborers, purification ritual: returned laborer holds pig during sacrifice