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Henhouse next to the Hutchins' house

Kairiru: children in a window opening

Children smiling

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: anthropologist Annette Weiner at exchange ritual, another woman puts betel nut clusters on exchange pile

House-building: men lash horizontal poles to notched vertical posts, betel nut (areca) palm (l) taboo with coconut frond tied around it

Dance: children, beautified with coconut oil and yellow pollen on skin, feathers and powder in hair, singing

Canoes: closeup showing details of canoe's interior, including raised plank sides

Girl in short fiber skirt walks in shallow lagoon, edge of coral reef visible in distance

Woman holding an infant

Food preparation: man tends bananas and yams cooking on a fire built among tree roots

Mortuary ceremony: women gathered for exchange of banana leaf bundles and fiber skirts, near chief's house and yam houses

Bomtavau heats a pandanus leaf, preparing material for weaving