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Child with bandaged forehead sits on a woman's lap, eating coconut

Children playing, pulling boy on a makeshift cart in Tukwaukwa village, Kiriwina

Dance: decorated children with short red fiber skirts and flattened dried pandanus leaves prepare for circle dance, dog in foreground

Carving: older man uses an adze with metal blade to shape a piece of wood

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: woman carries high-ranking fiber skirt valuable to ritual exchange, anthropologist Annette Weiner (center, background)

Land clearing: men take a break from cutting trees and bushes from rocky land, preparing for construction

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman, marked with talcum powder, carries basket and calls out to exchange partners

Woman and smiling children gathered on a house veranda, Tukwaukwa village, Kiriwina

Young woman taking care of an Australian boy, Butch Holland

Kairiru: designs carved into large slit drums

Mortuary ceremony: women gather with exchange items, including baskets of banana leaf bundles

Kaileuna Island: village houses, people gathered on beach, Edwin Hutchins (in white shirt) on canoe