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House-building for Rappaports: siding made of pandanus leaves being added to wall frame

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in ancestral shrine, pig and river eels have been sacrificed to spirits of low ground

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

Bridge-building: man walks on newly finished bridge

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

Mortuary ceremony: woman weaves long fiber skirt for ritual exchange

Aerial view of mountains and river

Shield: Piat paints design on shield at Rappaport's house

Western Highlands: small log bridge in a garden, man on bridge, house in distance

Adolescent girls (Kopi, Kanila, and Kena) smiling next to the Cooks' house in Kwiop

Mafulu children at Dilava Catholic mission; some are wearing shell jewelry, including crescent kina necklace

Pig festival, wig ritual, Tsembaga: men with red wigs under construction sit in shelter by men's house