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Kwiop men weave panels for house walls

Pig house at Kwiop Duwai, built as part of government project, intended to house a boar to improve local breeding stock

Behind a man in costume, Dopima village, Goaribari Island

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: ritual exchange of shell valuables, steel axes, and pork displayed on mat, man examines kina shell

Pig festival, singsing preparations, Tsembaga: women wearing shell valuables socialize near dance ground

Bridge-building: two sides of bridge start to meet

Returned laborers, purification ritual: man eats bespelled pork and yams, renouncing taboo

Boy with buildings in background

Mogiovyeka with his wife and four children, including Imala (left) and Louie Tanai (right)

Catholic priests sitting near a mission building, young Papuan men in background, Yule Island

Local court case: cash and other items, including feather valuables in a bamboo tube, for a compensation payment

Ambaiat: Dagabun and Granjumba butcher pig killed for damaging garden, dog smells carcass