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Kewa child, future warrior perhaps, young boy carries sticks

A village leader in regalia including a headdress with feathers, a pearlshell ornament, and other shell valuables

Settlement of adjacent Samberigi (Sau) language speakers, near their boundary with the Folopa; structure at the lower left is a hut for the patrol officer

The anthropologist John Leroy's house at Yakopaita: mat walls, grass thatch, plastic sheet to catch rainwater

Removed from an earth oven: pork, marsupial meat, cooked tubers and greens; pearlshell (center) and a few coins in Australian currency are added for gifts

Man with elaborately painted face and wig with marsupial fur, wearing a specially fine baler shell for a ceremony

Decorated men displaying pearlshells to be exchanged in Koiari village; shells are carried in a large netbag

Men showing pearlshells for ceremonial exchange

The anthropologist, John Leroy and another man, dressed for a ceremony

An older village leader, garden in background

A view of Kerabi hamlet during a pig ceremony, temporary visitor accommodations and earth ovens visible in center

A spring trap for marsupials