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Girl wearing short fiber skirt and beaded necklace, seated under a house with other people

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: smiling woman, her face blackened with ash and head shaved to signify mourning

Young girl leans on house veranda

Canoe with woven pandanus sail, several passengers and some cargo

Dance: children wear short grass skirts, shell valuables, and feather headdresses, carry flattened pandanus leaves

Infant with betel nut paste dabbed on face

Woman in long fiber skirt, her head shaved as sign of mourning, with mortar and pestle for betel nut

Canoe-building: men work together to pull hollowed log from forest

Shells and seaweed inside split coconut

Western Highlands: road cut into hillside, smoke from garden fires

Canoe-building: Mogiovyeka attaches the 'duku' vine that will be used to pull the roughly carved canoe through the forest to the nearest inlet

Manus: Pondrilei uses pole to guide canoe near Pere village