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Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: man pierces ground at gate with a stake, expelling enemy spirits

Girls decorated for a ceremonial, red and white face paint, pearlshell and trade beads

Pregnant woman strips fibrous bark (for making string) from small branches

Wanuma: Lutheran missionary, Hildegard Schoettler, gives medical care to infant at mission clinic

Bride price ritual: man placates woman, frightened child behind them, leaf bundle with valuables on left

Carving: stone tool being used to smooth an arrow

Food preparation: Mantyapai gathering blood from a butchered pig, Nemengomp

Stilted walkway over water, and houses in a village in Gulf Province

Courtship: adolescent girls wear beads and armbands, dressed up for courtship event

Bride price for Bints: husband's kin enter bride's village

Earth ovens being prepared, shelter for visiting participants in background, decorated men wear headdresses and baler shell valuables

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: behind ritual fence, Tsembaga men in red wigs prepare to distribute pork to allies