Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: display of shell valuables at sacrifice of female pigs to spirits of the high ground

• November 1962

• Rappaport, Roy A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roy Rappaport Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 36, Envelope 8-13, Frame 11)

Described in field notes for October-November 1962.

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

• Ceremonial exchange
• Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
• Rites and ceremonies
• Shell money

• image

Event ID: Rappaport roll number: RRA18

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• Roy Rappaport Papers

• UC Regents

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2021-11-16