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Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: Wabi presents food to visiting allies, men watch from framework attached to tree

Returned laborers, purification ritual: in front of house built by returned laborers, preparations for sacrifical feast are made

Kwiop Ridge face, image 1 left to right

Rabaul area, volcanic peaks, seen from Coastwatcher's Memorial

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kwiop: war allies charge with mock aggression to the ritual fence, where they will be fed salted pork

Returned laborers (in western clothing) and kin

Tabibuga and surrounding mountains, aerial view

Aerial view of village on mountain ridge

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

Kwiop: houses and clearings, view from above

Pig festival, wig ritual: man bespells drums to ensure they will be loud and pleasing to ancestors

Mortuary ritual: women, their faces and bodies smeared with clay as sign or mourning, carry corpse wrapped for burial