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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

Smiling boy beside a house

Canoe-building: Mogiovyeka attaches outrigger float to a canoe, lashing with lengths of vine, he is smoking

Kula ring: red shell-disc necklace (soulava) with coin inset on carved bone surface (l)

Bundle on a canoe, Tukwaukwa village in distance, Kiriwina

Smiling women wearing fiber skirt, her teeth stained red from betel nut

Canoes: carved and painted splashboard on a kula canoe, two small figures in upper center represent witches

Baluan Island: Mouk village, view from bay, outhouse on stilts (center)

Woman holding infant, Tukwaukwa village on Kiriwina

Adolescent girl wears colorful short fiber skirt and shell necklace