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Kimi and friends from Bubgile, a Gandja village

Young Mafulu girls with shell jewelry; on the left is a kina, a crescent shaped shell valuable

Decorated man holding a shell for its recipient, pigs tethered in background, men wear ritual finery including feathered headdresses

Some members of Timbamaruwaga clan, Ndeygomba

Food preparation: Pambo, Kiap (name) and Akis build above-ground oven

New mother wearing shell belt and necklace, fiber skirt, flower garland, and skirt valuable on head, and red betel nut paste on face, word tattooed on left arm, marks on body may be skin fungus

Adolescent girl, wearing shell necklace and dashes of betel nut paste on her cheeks, holds a baby on her lap

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women, in long fiber skirts, gather for exchange

Decorated man searing off the bristles of a pig in preparation for butchering and cooking, prior to exchange

Mortuary ceremony: elderly woman, Bomtavau, wearing head cloth carries banana leaf bundle (wealth item) in basket

Small boat in shallow water, Munuwata Island

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: in ancestral shrine, pig is killed in sacrifice to spirits of the low ground, Marek Jablonko films