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Western Highlands: woman eating yam

House-building: men construct frame, notched vertical posts, betel nut (areca) palm at left is taboo with coconut frond tied around it

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with black paint on face and body, shaved head, wears turtle shell earrings and red shell necklace

Man climbing a coconut palm tree to harvest nuts

Infant on woven mat plays with canister

Canoe-building: men work together to bring hollowed log from forest, floating it on a stream in the mangrove swamp (wapasa)

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women present fiber skirt valuables to widow who sits in doorway of small mourning house

Man with betel nut stains on teeth

Canoes: carved and painted branch-end style prowboard on a kula canoe

Food preparation: men prepare meal of yams in building under construction

Fishing: children play with net in shallow lagoon near Wawela village, boys wear leaf coverings, girl (r) wears short fiber skit

Kairiru: village and coconut palms on cliff by ocean