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Aerial view of mountains

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: men in new garden expel enemy spirits with bespelled stakes

Pig festival, wig ritual, Tsembaga: mixing powdered paint for red wigs, note tin

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: men watch as fight package is rubbed on tree to be felled at enemy boundary

Bridge-building: finishing fastening of two sides of bridge together

Fainjur: woman breastfeeds infant

Gardening: man uses slash-and-burn technique to clear land for garden

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: decorated man applies face paint, man on left carries folded mat holder for feather valuables

Ritual exchange: men measure strand of cowrie shells against stone axe

Pig festival, wig ritual: men wearing red wigs and feather valuables, folded mat held between split stick (l) used to carry feather valuables

Pig festival, pig sacrifice: frame for sacrifice house in ancestral shrine

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: women, some with netbags, on dance ground where exchanges are taking place, wig on right