TAGGED: customs
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Michael Leahy’s photographs and footage show the highlanders surrounding and looking at a gramophone (with a 1930s recording of ‘Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ playing on the soundtrack).

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At a big gathering, people are stunned and grieving. Madang, one of Joe’s main adversaries regarding the plantations, has been killed.

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At a meeting of the Ganiga tribe, Joe and his ally, tribal elder Popina Mai, speak about the plan for Ganiga to work on the plantation.

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At a community meeting, a young man debates with Joe Leahy about the profit split of their Kaugum coffee plantation. Leahy explains how he is the one taking the risk with the bank loan.

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At a village meeting, two highlanders are bartering a 'bride-price’. On offer are pigs rather than money.

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In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man.

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At a village gathering, the father of a wounded Ganiga man, shot by a Gaimelka man, has a stand-off with a Lutheran pastor who had been trying to calm things down.

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A group of women talk about their experiences with the Leahy brothers. They describe how, as young women, their people sold them to the Leahy brothers for sexual purposes.

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In interview and voice-over, James Leahy recollects the first time the Leahy brothers came across a new community of highlanders.