Lavongai

Culture group's main name: Lavongai
Culture group name: Lavongai
Alternate culture group name: Tungak; Tati
Communicates in langoid: Tungag
Is part of polity: New Ireland Province; Papua New Guinea
Uses residence pattern: neolocal; uxorimatrilocal; viripatrilocal; virimatrilocal
Kinship terminology system: Iroquois
Uses union type: MonogamousHeterosexualUnion; Polygyny
Uses group descent system: matrilineal
Mode(s) of subsistence: fishing; pig husbandry; horticulture (taro, yams, manioc, banana); small scale commerce of horticultural produce
Is described in source (bibliography): Billings Dorothy K., 1981, Styles of culture: New Ireland and New Hanover; Roberts Jason, 2019, "We Stay the Same": Life, Logging, and the Continuing Pursuit of Development on New Hanover Island (Lavongai), Papua New Guinea