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New mother, holding newborn, wears long fiber shawl, flower garland, and skirt valuable on head, and betel nut paste on face

Children look at magazines while they sit on house veranda

Canoe-building: men use lengths of vine to lash outrigger frame to a canoe

Boy chewing on a leaf

Carving: M'lapokala carving a wooden bowl with a stand, probably for tourist trade, other carvings (l)

Children, girl (l) wears turtle shell earrings and shell necklace

Kairiru Island: village and coconut palms on cliff by ocean

Yam display: large heap of yams arranged within a circular framework, under a shade structure

Mortuary ceremony: women exchange banana leaf bundles and long fiber skirts, one woman wears shell necklace with white cowries, talcum powder on shoulders

Yam house of the chief, Omarakana: filled with yams, rests on coral boulders

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman, ash-blackened skin and shaved head, presents banana leaf bundle at exchange, large pile of bundles in background

Woman wearing long fiber skirt