Pig festival, fertility ritual: women and children drink sacred water to ask ancestors for health and fertility

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For more information on this ritual, see Edwin Cook's dissertation, Manga Social Organization.

• 1972

• Cook, Edwin A.

Women and children drinking sacred water. 24.

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• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)

• Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
• Rites and ceremonies

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