Methods of Collecting and Presenting the Materials

This is the second in a series of papers on the culture of the Mountain Arapesh of which the first, The Mountain Arapesh, An Importing Culture, 1 contained an exposition of their daily life with detailed descriptions and illustrations of their articles of material culture manufactured by themselves and the imported objects which were an essential part of their lives. 2 It begins with an introductory account of the material and non-material culture of the Sepik-Aitape Area, within which the Arapesh live, and concludes with a discussion of the way in which foreign objects of material culture and foreign non-material culture traits are imported and integrated in the culture of the Mountain Arapesh.