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House that has burned down in a fire, Tukwaukwa village on Kiriwina

Western Highlands: house made of traditional materials, built in Western style

Shoreline: tree-lined beach on lagoon

Anthropologist Edwin Hutchins talks with M'lapokala, elevated yam house in background

Weaving: woman plaits an armband, Omarakana

Mother breastfeeds infant on house veranda

Adolescent girls wearing short red fiber skirts and turtle shell earrings, two wear headbands with shell valuables, Dona Hutchins (r)

Land litigation meeting: under chief's house in Tukwaukwa, villagers listen to proceedings

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles, observed by anthropologist Annette Weiner (back to camera)

Men build concrete base for cistern to catch rainwater from the roof of the Hutchins' house

Fishing: boy fishes with a hand line while standing on tree branch above waves on the east coast of Kiriwina