Pig festival, stake planting, Tuguma: boundary gate, marked with shields, stakes, bamboo arch and cordyline

"The trail crosses a boundary between local populations. It is rare for shields to be set at boundaries, but stakes (left foreground) are always planted." -Pigs for the Ancestors (1984).

• October 1, 1962

• Rappaport, Roy A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roy Rappaport Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 22, Envelope 18-23, Frame 19)

"Sorcery gate of luluai and tul tul of Tuguma." (Notebook RR#3, MSS516_3_3, October 4, 1962)

• Madang Province (Papua New Guinea)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea

• Cordyline
• Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
• Rites and ceremonies
• Weapons

• image

Event ID: Rappaport roll number: RRA15

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• Roy Rappaport Papers

• UC Regents

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2021-11-16