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Kwiop, aerial view of ridge-top trails and gardens

Bride price for Aina: husband's kin approach with spears, bows, and arrows displayed

Bismarck Range: forested slopes and old garden clearings

Bismarck Range mountains

Maternal and child health clinic, parents and children waiting

Bride price ritual: procession, including bride with headdress, on trail

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kwiop: inside the ritual fence, though which allies will be given pork

House-building: Kwiop men level site for the Cooks' house

Bride price for Aina: payment, observed by group of children and young women, some wearing elaborate headdresses, shell pendants, and other ornaments

Bride price for Maima, food preparation: bundle of blood pudding cooked on spit over fire, will be shared with wife's kin

Bismarck Range mountains

Bride price for Aina: husband's kin approach with spears, displaying payment banner of money and plumes