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Returned laborers, purification ritual: preparations are made for sacrificial feast, next to new-style house built by the returnees

Susan Pflanz-Cook at Mendana Hotel, Honiara

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: decorated clan members dance while plant is uprooted in men's house clearing

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kwiop: Kulakaengeyka men call war allies to be fed at ritual fence

Courtship: decorated adolescent girls in front of the Cooks' house, mother and child look inside house

Village on mountain slope, view from above

Kwiop Yamba from Duwai B, image 1 left to right

Mount Hagen show: men in traditional wigs and other finery

Pig festival, pig sacrifice preparations: Kolip and Kent blow spells on gate posts for ritual fence through which allies will be fed

Returned laborers, purification ritual: returnee kills pig, watched by others

Bride price ritual: bride is fed by groom's kin

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: decorated allies cut down casuarina tree, re-enacting killing of an enemy