# Morkai

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**Morkai** is a tribe that lives around the Tabibuga Station of [Jimi District](/source/Jimi_Valley) in [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea). The tribe is subdivided into the smaller clans: Kimbaka, Keska, Galeboka, Maika, Nipka and Parka. The Tabibuga Station stands on Galemboka's and Kimbaka's land mass.

The Morkai tribe speaks the [Narak language](/source/Narak_language). There is no intermarriage between the Kimbaka - Keska and Galemboka clans, but there is marriage between the rest of the clans.

The normal livelihood of Morkai is [subsistence agriculture](/source/Subsistence_agriculture). Their main staple food is kaukau ([sweet potato](/source/Sweet_potato)), with other seasonal food such as [taro](/source/Taro), yams and [cassavas](/source/Cassava). Mareta (red panda-nut) is a popular [cash crop](/source/Cash_crop) and is also mainly used for exchanges and [bride price](/source/Bride_price) gifts.

Pigs are a wide form of [livestock wealth](/source/Livestock_Wealth). Pigs are also traded for cash or used in exchange for compensation payments and bride price payments. Also pigs are slaughtered for ceremonial activities.

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