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Young girl holding an infant, girl is smiling

Kiriwina Island's east coast, uplifted coral reef cliffs "raibwaga" on left

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: crowd of mourning women at exchange of banana leaf bundles, Annette Weiner (center distance)

Kairiru: woman smoking a pipe

Yam house with designs painted on walls, sculpture at peak of roof

Children play in surf, on the east coast of Kiriwina

Mortuary ceremony: men with piles of yams, taro, and betel nut for initial payment to mourners

Mortuary ceremony: women put talcum powder onto mourning woman wearing long fiber skirt

Older woman relaxing on a veranda

Canoes: carved and painted prow and splashboard of kula canoe, white cowrie shells attached to splashboard

Infant on woven mat plays with canister

Bomtavau, an older woman, with newly shaven head, sign of mourning