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Meeting at Kwiop: local government councillor Mai Kopi standing in center

Pig festival, fertility ritual: women and infants annointed with sacred water

Cassowary in a pen, being fed

Courtship: decorated adolescent girls and potential male suitors in front of the Cooks' house

Pig festival, preparations: men's house (r) and small house for sacred stones (l), elevated food storage to store food for upcoming feasts

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual: decorated men stand on framework in a casuarina tree

Tabibuga airstrip, people and small airplanes

Port Moresby show: dancers with blackened skins dance with axes and spears

Edwin Cook's house in Kwiop: Interior

Government-sponsored festival in Tabibuga: crowd of young men and boys

Tabibuga: market for garden produce

Nancy Cook giving salt to Kwiop women, who have brought sweet potatoes to exchange