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... Eastern Highlands , months , even years , of careful preparation and husbandry , of judiciously weighing debts and resources , precede the vast slaughter of pigs to be presented to the invited guests as a proclamation of achievement ...
... Eastern Highlands , months , even years , of careful preparation and husbandry , of judiciously weighing debts and resources , precede the vast slaughter of pigs to be presented to the invited guests as a proclamation of achievement ...
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... Eastern Highlands , a youth charged with responsibility for the pregnancy of an unmarried girl will often rest his defense on the ground that he could not be the father of her child because he had slept with her only once . Domestic ...
... Eastern Highlands , a youth charged with responsibility for the pregnancy of an unmarried girl will often rest his defense on the ground that he could not be the father of her child because he had slept with her only once . Domestic ...
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... Eastern Highlands , with dance - frames of bark - cloth stretched over a cane form , painted and decorated with feathers Such myths and hopes are also reflected by the gorgeously. Bena - Bena man from the Eastern Highlands with dance ...
... Eastern Highlands , with dance - frames of bark - cloth stretched over a cane form , painted and decorated with feathers Such myths and hopes are also reflected by the gorgeously. Bena - Bena man from the Eastern Highlands with dance ...
Common terms and phrases
Angoram animals Anthropology Asaro Valley Australian National University Bark-cloth painting bird of paradise bolong carved cathedral celebrated ceremonial dress characteristic Chimbu area coastal colors coral atolls crocodile's head cult D'ENTRECASTEAUX dance-frame dancing ground Dani-speaking decorated dug-out canoe Dutch Eastern Enga enshrined exist expression feathers festivals Gardens GEORGE HOLTON German New Guinea goals Gulf of Papua harvested yams HUMAN AVIARY impersonal intricate Kenneth E kinship Lake Kopiago lives low-lying valley male initiation man's Maprik marine creatures Markham marriage Matthiesen Melanesian languages Melanesian-speakers men's cult-house Minj Mount Hagen myths Painted bark-cloth hangings paperback Papuan languages photographs Pidgin English plumes Polynesia powers that transcend reflected Relatives gathered sampela School of Pacific Scribner Sepik River skilled species stret suprahuman tasol Territory of Papua thatch timeless transcend his limited transferred to Australia Trobriand Islands ultimate vaulting vernacular differences village vulnerable Wabag Wahgi wealth Western Highlands women yam storehouse York