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

Susan Pflanz-Cook with notebook and and Ndowa with netbag at Duwai

Kwiop, Mai's house and store

Pig festival, singsing, Kompiai: decorated men carry drums and weapons onto dance ground

Plateau in Central Province, inland of Port Moresby

Tabibuga: landing strip

Siar Plantation, housing for laborers

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