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Trail leading to the Cooks' house in Kwiop

Bridge-building: constructing deck of bridge

New mother, holding newborn, wears long fiber shawl, flower garland, and skirt valuable on head, red betel nut paste on face

Canoes: man places basket of yams and other items onto canoe for coastal transport, women holding infants stand nearby

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: man secures bark lining of above ground oven at ancestral shrine

Bovine husbandry, a practice newly adopted by a headman

Trobriand woman in mourning with beaded necklaces, ash blackens her face and body

Dance: children wear short fiber skirts and carry flattened pandanus leaves for circle dance, younger children look on

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: decorated allies have been called to small opening in ritual fence, to be given salted pork

Young girl, Imala, with small tortoise-shell earrings

Boy stretches piece of snake skin

Mortuary ritual: mourners, some with clay smeared on bodies and faces as sign of mourning