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Distant view of dwelling by the lake

Shelly Schreiner beats leaf packets with women

Two houses

Portrait of a woman

Iika chipping edges off of coneshells with a knife, one step in making kofu shell money beads, at Fanuaba'ita

Splitting of bark to make the container to carry the finished taro and coconut pudding for presentation, and the making of the container

Feast at kastom occassion, in Ngarinaasuru, with Christian-style food presentation on leaf rows

Sacrifice by people of Kwailala'e

Group portrait in front of a house

Europeans on the patio of a building

Student at the Central Medical School, Suva

Man and boy near a building