Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: blood is drained from small female pig that has been sacrificed to spirits of high ground, blood will be cooked with other food
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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 14-19, Frame 18) Described in field notes for October-November 1962. [Title, Date]. Roy Rappaport Papers. MSS 516. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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Pork Maring (Papua New Guinean people) Cookery Sacrifice Melanesia Oceania Madang Province (Papua New Guinea) Pacific Islands Papua New Guinea
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Melanesia Oceania Madang Province (Papua New Guinea) Pacific Islands Papua New Guinea
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