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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

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: man in ancestral shrine

Bismarck Range mountains, view from Tsembaga

Atitau, Wanuma Census Division: men by government or mission buildings

Boy with necklaces, woven armband, and talcum powder on chest

Kowat: carriers and Pete Vayda next to houses

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Kompiai: decorated men with drums, prepared to dance

Adolescent girl is beautified, wearing short fiber skirt, armbands, large turtle shell earrings, flower garlands, shell necklaces