Pig festival, fertility ritual: deaf child and mother annointed with sacred water, pig jaws on cordyline in background

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

• 1972

• Cook, Edwin A.

Deaf mute retarded child and mother being anointed. Mo.=Moru [mother's name?]

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Box 45, Folder 11, Slide 0644).

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

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

• image

Online finding aid

• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-17