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Weaving: man making a belt or armband from plant fibers

Aiome to Ambaiat: Ann Rappaport on log bridge

Bride price ritual: Wando and others eat food provided by groom's group

Houses on stilts over water at Tupuseleia, a Motu village

Fishing net with shells as weights along lower edge, and with floats made of small pieces of rubber debris, hanging from a line on a house

Courtship: young men beautified for courting, they wear feathers, hair ornaments, shell necklaces, red loin cloths, fragrant leaves and flowers

Food preparation: man with small slaughtered pig

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: Ann Rappaport with woman at ancestral shrine

Girl making garland or lei of frangipani (plumeria) flowers

Yeria, Wanuma Census Division: man next to tree from which bark has been removed

Pig festival, wig ritual, Tsembaga: boys extract pandanus oil to be rubbed on wigged men's skin

Pig festival, wig ritual, Tsembaga: pandanus fruit (r) and pitpit, food for men undergoing construction of red wigs