Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: blood is drained from dead female pig, sacrificed for spirits of 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 14-19, Frame 19)

Described in field notes for October-November 1962.

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

• Cookery
• Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
• Pork
• Sacrifice

• image

Event ID: Rappaport roll number: RRA18

Online finding aid

• Roy Rappaport Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Roy Rappaport Papers. MSS 516. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-16