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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

Pig houses of Mai and Ndikai, garden and houses in background

Pig festival, singsing, Tsembaga hosts Tsengamp: decorated men at ritual fence, prepare to enter dance ground

Large group assembled near houses after hookworm lecture, Unea, Witu Islands

Bride price for Membe: bride's kin display bird of paradise plumes and other feather valuables to be given as a return payment to the husband's group