In the early 1970s I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Institute of Medical Research in Goroka in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea where research was being undertaken into many Pathological Conditions including perhaps most famously the rapidly progressive neurological disorder known as Kuru that attacked only one small regional clan of people,known as the Fore, and seemed to be transmitted by the ingestion of raw human brain tissue as was a cultural practice in that group as a way of passing on virtue from newly deceased tribal members. This mother and daughter were living in a village near the Institute but were not from the area where Kuru was endemic. The original is a small oil painting on canvas board about 8X10 inches now in a private collection in Vancouver. The small animal is a pig. These are highly valued possessions and symbols of wealth raised like children by the women.