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Yam houses next to a line of betel nut (areca) palms

Canoe-building: hollowed log floated downstream, group of men prepare to return from forest in their smaller canoes

Mortuary ceremony: women weave long fiber skirts for ritual exchange, women in foreground tend cooking pots over fire

Young children on veranda of Hutchins' house

House decorated with balloons, children playing

Young woman and infant, woman has large ear piercing

Mortuary ceremony: mourning women, skins blackened with ash, at exchange of banana leaf bundles

Dance: children wear colorful fiber skirts and carry pandanus leaves, girl (center) wears paint on face

Woman and children sitting on grass next to houses

Woman and infant

Woman displays decorated fiber skirt valuable, she wears long two-tiered fiber skirt in Wawela village

Mortuary ceremony: yams, slab of pork, and sugarcane, for death exchange