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Carving: M'lapokala uses a decorated adze to carve a wooden bowl with stand, probably for tourist trade

Friendship: adolescent girls in short fiber skirts, necklaces and garlands, girl (l) wears mourning necklace

Social interaction: village chief Murebodema and other men visiting and smoking cigarettes

Woman comforts crying baby, who holds medicine bottle

Mortuary ceremony: women with banana leaf bundles (wealth items) gathered for exchange

Weaving: woman makes skirt out of banana leaf fibers, some dyed red

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with shaved head wearing long fiber skirt, she arranges banana leaf bundles for exchange

Beach on Kiriwina near Kaibola village, fringed with coconut palms, people bath in shallow clear water

Lagoon at sunset, papaya tree silhouette, Kiriwina

Canoe used as transport, man paddles, woman and children are passengers

Mortuary ceremony: woman carries basket of food to be shared with participants

Woman spreads pandanus leaves to dry, preparing them to be used in basket- or mat-making