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Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women carry fiber skirts and banana leaf bundles, approach the bereaved spouse

Social interaction: women, including Dona Hutchins, and children visiting at night

Young girl holding an infant, girl is smiling

Young woman in short fiber skirt, holding infant

Fishing: man removes fish from net on board a canoe

Mortuary ceremony: women weave long banana fiber skirts for exchange

Bomtavau, her head shaved as a sign of mourning, uses a mortar and pestle to prepare betel nut (areca)

Western Highlands: woman uses digging stick among sweet potato plants, harvesting a tuber

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with shaved head, wearing long fiber skirt and beaded necklaces

Village scene: church building (r), people carry bundles on heads

Canoe-building: men hollow out a log as base for new canoe, many other men await their turn to assist

Canoes used for coastal transport is loaded with baskets and other items, women and children aboard