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Title
Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: man butchers female pig that has been sacrificed to spirits of high ground
Creator
Rappaport, Roy A
Date Created and/or Issued
October 29, 1962
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Roy Rappaport Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roy Rappaport Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 36, Envelope 26-31, Frame 31)
Described in field notes for October-November 1962.
[Title, Date]. Roy Rappaport Papers. MSS 516. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Subject
Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
Cookery
Children
Pork
Papua New Guinea
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Oceania
Madang Province (Papua New Guinea)
Place
Papua New Guinea
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Oceania
Madang Province (Papua New Guinea)

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