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The Kwoma are a small group of indigenous people living in the Ambunti Sub-Province of the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. They are internally divided into two major groups; the "Kwoma" or "hill people" inhabiting the Washkuk Hills on the north of the Sepik River, and the “Nukuma,” or “headwater people” living further north and west along the tributaries of the Sepik. Traditional Kwoma society was organized in a moiety-type clan and localized lineages. The male members of each lineage lived in villages clustered around a men's ceremonial house. They subsist principally on wild sago, supplemented with swidden cultivation, fishing and occasional hunting.

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Incest, exchange, and the definition of women among the Kwoma

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Bowden, Ross	Culture Summary	2010
Bowden, Ross	Yena	1983
Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew	Becoming a Kwoma	1941
Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew	Kwoma journal	1970
Williamson, Margaret Holmes	Sex relations and gender relations	1983
Williamson, Margaret Holmes	Incest, exchange, and the definition of women among the Kwoma	1985

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