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Title
Pig festival, uprooting cordyline ritual, Tsembaga: cassowary, food associated with spirits of high ground, is placed in elevated oven to be cooked
Creator
Rappaport, Roy A
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1, 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 39, Envelope 14-19, Frame 16)
Described in field notes for November 1, 1962.
[Title, Date]. Roy Rappaport Papers. MSS 516. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb7305261c
Subject
Cassowaries
Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
Cookery
Rites and ceremonies
Papua New Guinea
Madang Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Pacific Islands
Place
Papua New Guinea
Madang Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Melanesia
Pacific Islands

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