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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

Canoes: carved and painted prowboard and splashboard on a kula canoe

Shallow lagoon, island in distance

Canoes: Child sits on fishing canoe, other canoes in background at Wawela village