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Bridge-building: men place planks for deck

Wanuma: Lutheran missionary, Hildegard Schoettler, and boys on porch of mission clinic

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: man sprinkles bespelled water in ancestral shrine, purifying area where sacrifical pigs wil be cooked

Madang-Aiome flight: burned kunai grass, Ramu River Valley and Schrader Range, aerial view

Pig festival, singsing preparations, Tsembaga: men build visitors' house, frame construction

Pig festival, wig ritual, Tsembaga: man's wig is decorated with feathers, barkcloth cap covers wig in foreground

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Torpai: in ancestral shrine, men prepare pork and other foods

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in ancestral shrine, man holds tube of bespelled water for ritual purification

Ritual exchange: man measures strand of cowrie shells against blade of stone axe

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: decorated men pierce dance ground to expel enemy spirits

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: display of shell valuables at sacrifice of female pigs to spirits of the high ground

Food preparation: placing chicken in above-ground oven