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House-building for Rappaports: men prepare lumber for house frame

Women sit together, one working with string, the other holding infant

Pig festival, singsing, Tsembaga: Aundagai women, several in mourning paint, near visitors' shelter on dance ground

Food preparation: chicken and greens in above-ground in which hot stones will be placed

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

Western Highlands: woman and child, cloud-wreathed mountain range seen across a broad valley

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in center, man displays shell valuables for trade, others in crowd also carry items for exchange

Young woman in short fiber skirt holds large basket on her head, village houses in background

Canoe-building: men use lengths of vine to attach an outrigger float to a canoe, young child observes

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: building fire at ancestral shrine, above ground oven in background

Mafulu men and boys at Dilava mission

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in ritual exchange, man presents pork, shell valuables, and steel tools to allies