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Exchange leaders arriving, wearing shell valuables, face and body paint, red headdresses and loincloths, carrying bows and arrows

Hanuabada, a Motu village

Pig festival, pig sacrifice preparations: men carry gate posts for ritual fence through which allies will be fed

Jimi River Valley, aerial view of village and gardens

Village near Yule Island, with European woman on right

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: Tsembaga men with stakes, cordyline and aglaonema leaves, expelling enemy spirits

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: men on ritual fence call names and clans of allies, men on ground give salted pork to those called

Unidentified European man in front of a house

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: small marsupials have been smoked and will be combined with pandanus for ritual meal

Returned laborers, purification ritual: women and children gather

Pig festival, pig sacrifice: children watch from bridge, as pigs are brought to slaughter

People cut grass around government rest house in Tsembaga, anticipating patrol officer's visit