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Roy Rappaport in Papua New Guinea

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: Akis (in red wig) ties leaves around food bundle

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: men prepare pitpit and other food in ancestral shrine

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women in long fiber skirts, faces and bodies covered with ash and heads shaved, hold banana leaf bundles

Older man, Motabasi, smiling

Young girl is beautified, dressed in colorful fiber skirt, armbands and turtle shell earrings, woman grooms the girl's hair

A village leader in regalia including a headdress with feathers, a pearlshell ornament, and other shell valuables

Distribution of wild pig meat: women and children eat pork which has been shared

Canoes: carved prow with nipawa (grasshopper or cicada) design

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: decorated men prepare to uproot plant, initiating next phase of pig festival

Hunting: Kalam man holds small marsupial, Korumbon area

Tabibuga: large number of people gathered to buy and sell produce at market