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Tabibuga, government office building

Returned laborers, purification ritual: Kent speaks to dead cassowaries dressed as humans, symbolizing the ancestors

Cassowaries in a pen and chick outside, being fed by a man

Cassowary caged in a small pen being fed

Government-sponsored festival in Tabibuga: men compete in greased pole-climb

Bride price for Maima: Molo the groom's group arrives carrying payment banner of feather and shell valuables for bride price

Pig festival, singsing, Kwima: dancers in feather and fur headdresses, man (r) wears red wig

Pig festival, wig ritual: decorated men solemnly beat kundu drums

Edwin Cook's house in Kwiop: wife Nancy Cook hangs laundry

Stone mortar

Returned laborers, purification ritual: Kent speaks to dead cassowaries dressed as a humans, symbolizing the ancestors, in center are above ground ovens

Pig festival, sacred stone house: decorated men enter house where fertility stones have been hung