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Pig festival, sacred stone house: decorated man enters house where sacred stones hang, others implore ancestors for fertility

Buka airport building

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: men strip seeds from pandanus fruit, watched by others, woman in center holds bamboo water container

Cassowary seen through wall of pen

Pigs tied to stakes in preparation for killing, Australian money on pole (center) and pearlshells (r), Koiari village houses in background

Food preparation: Noma placing hot stones on ferns covering food in elevated oven

Kwiop church in center, Mai's house and store on left

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women and children gathered for ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles

Pearlshells (smeared with red pigment) and Australian currency are prepared for ceremonial exchange, as a mission convert looks on

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: decorated men go to enemy boundary to dispose of plant

Women on the sidelines during a ceremonial pork exchange, wearing mission-approved attire

Western Highlands: tea plantation harvest, men bagging leaves