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Canoe: carved prow of a type of canoe called nipawa, meaning grasshopper or cicada

Weaving: smiling woman attaches dyed banana fibers to a cord wrapped around her foot, creating a colorful skirt

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning girl, her face and body blackened with ash and her head shaved, carries infant

Rainstorm over a low island seen across expanse of water

Young children gaze at camera, one wearing a necklace

Adolescent girls wearing short fiber skirts, flower garlands, and mourning necklaces

Beach at Wawela on the east coast of Kiriwina, palm trees, lagoon

Young woman, wearing shell necklaces, bathes in shallow water

Kairiru: anthropologists Bambi Schieffelin, Edward Schieffelin, and their son, Zachary

Canoe-building: men hollow out a log as base for new canoe, many other men await their turn to assist

Fishing nets hanging on a line

Fishing: canoes returning to inlet near Tukwaukwa, sails furled