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Portrait of two men and a women, wearing traditional Samoan headdress and ornaments

Men with rifles

Group of boys inside a meeting house

Meeting house on Nanumea, Tuvalu, called the aahiga or maneapa

Lambert in center, Malakai Veisamasama on left, with European man

Sylvester Lambert on Aitutaki, dressed in Cook Islands dance costume

Lambert on right, Malakai Veisamasama in center, with Cook Islanders

Hookworm lecture to a large group of Cook Islanders

Necker Island (Mokumanamana), Hawaiian Islands, as seen from R/V Horizon

Underwater field work off Vava'u, Tonga

Necker Island (Mokumanamana), Hawaiian Islands

Polynesian researches during a residence of nearly eight years in the Society and Sandwich islands