3.2 A woman named Mus mourns the death of her younger brother, Halia. |
3.7 Armed visitors march into Yibihilu to see Daguwa’s body |
3.8 An angry visiting man |
3..9 Wahi in mourning, prepared for a funeral fight |
3.10 Wahi in mourning for a second death |
3.11 A fight breaks out at a funeral in Yibihilu for the death of a senior woman. Peacekeepers intervene between the two sides |
3.12 Corpse of a young man (Halia) is carried out of the house for burial at Yibihilu. His head has benn wrapped in bark cloth. Note the flesh peeling from his bloated arm. |
3.13 A Gebusi man starts to construct a platform of poles and bark in the grave above a corpse. (Part of the corpse, shiny with cadaveric fluid, is visible in the lower left of the frame.) |
3.14 A woman mourns on top of a completed grave. Her legs are coated with dried cadaveric fluid from the corpse. |
3.15 A woman whose husband has just died is consoled. |
3.16 A memorial constructed atop Daguwa’s grave, including coconuts and other food for his spirit to eat and new bags that his female kin had recently made to give to him. |
3.17 Armed visitors listen to the account of Daguwa’s death at his funeral. |
3.18 Bruce in the midst of armed men discussing Daguwa’s death. |
3.19 Saliam sits forlorn as Daguwa’s death is discussed. |
3.20 Hosts run into the longhouse at Yibihilu with plates of food to appease the visitors. |
3.24 Two funeral antagonists make peace by sharing a pipeful of tobacco smoke over the grave of the deceased. |
8.19 Uwano’s corpse, dressed in his white Sunday shirt, wreathed in leaves, and placed in a grave. |
8.20 People of Gasumi Corners cluster around Uwano’s open grave while a Catholic lay pastor reads a passage from the Bible. | |
