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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

Ambaiat: Dagabun and Granjumba butcher pig killed for damaging garden, dog smells carcass

Bridge-building: construction of bridge base

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: ritual fence through which allies will be given salted pork, man at top has climbed pole to call their names

Smiling adolescent boy in the ancestral shrine

Food preparation: tubers and pork being cooked in earth oven

Wanuma: garden clearing below Wanuma station

Yagip River: Pete Vayda and carriers cross with cargo

Pig festival, uprooting cordyling ritual, Tsembaga: man holds a mirror and wears elaborate feather headdress, many shell valuables, and marsupial fur, more bird-of-paradise feathers stuck into tree at right