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Babaimp: Kalam carrier with barkcloth cap

Food preparation: man butchering a pig at Nemegemp

Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: man leaps on hot stones while stabbing red pandanus fruit with cassowary bone

Dispute in Tuguma: people gather for discussion

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