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Food preparation: Noma placing hot stones on ferns covering food in elevated oven

Kwiop church in center, Mai's house and store on left

Pearlshells (smeared with red pigment) and Australian currency are prepared for ceremonial exchange, as a mission convert looks on

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: decorated men go to enemy boundary to dispose of plant

Women on the sidelines during a ceremonial pork exchange, wearing mission-approved attire

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: man in ancestral shrine

Bismarck Range mountains, view from Tsembaga

Atitau, Wanuma Census Division: men by government or mission buildings

Kowat: carriers and Pete Vayda next to houses

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kompiai: decorated men with drums, prepared to dance

Bride price for Maima: decorated child wearing kina shell and headdress, probably a child of the bride (Maima) and groom (Molo)

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: construction of ritual fence through which allies will be fed pork