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Erave patrol post buildings and airstrip

Patrol officer (center, in red cap) with his translator addresses villagers, Australian flag on pole at left

Local leader, in ceremonial dress, smokes a pipe

An aging village leader, skin blackened with soot and oil and decorated for ceremonial parading

Singeing a pig prior to butchering and cooking for ritual exchange

Exchange leaders arriving, wearing shell valuables, face and body paint, red headdresses and loincloths, carrying bows and arrows

Australian Protestant missionary addresses the faithful

Decorated men singe the bristles off a pig, preparing to cook for ritual exchange in Koiari village

The anthropologist, John LeRoy, with his neighbors

Two girls, their skin painted for a ceremony

Adolescent girls in a circle dance

Decorated man, dressed for a ceremonial parade and display, wears headdress with cassowary feathers and a large baler shell