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Kwiop census, people wait to be counted by visiting government patrol officer

Bride price for Membe: Minj men display cash to be given by husband's kin to bride's group

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: uprooted plants, carried at waist (positioned as a dead warrior), are brought to clan boundary

House-building: walls and rafters

Bride price ritual: decorated men with spears charge in mock aggression, lead the groom's group into the bride's village

Bride price for Mitsi: decorated members of the groom's group dance in the bride's village, Edwin Cook observes

David Gwore feeds his small pig, while children look on

Bride price for Maima, food preparation: men kill a pig, whose meat will be included in bride price payment

Bride price ritual: bride is reclaimed by her husband's brother

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: war ally re-enacts killing an enemy by cutting down casuarina tree

Pig festival, singsing, Kompiai: decorated men dance, Nancy Cook watches

Local court case: Mai Kopi, local government council representative, presides