Search results

Woman heats and flattens pandanus leaf over a fire, softening it for use in weaving

Elderly man sits on shady veranda

Kairiru: adolescent girl carrying a younger child on her back

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women with banana leaf bundles and piles of yams for ritual exchange

Adolescent girl wearing necklace and short fiber skirt

Young woman named Linette, wearing shell necklace and dress, bathes in shallow water

Mortuary ceremony: yams are piled for distribution, bundles of sugarcane stand at right

Canoes: woman loads baskets of yams onto canoe used for coastal transport

Canoe-building: men work together to bring hollowed log from forest, floating it on a stream in the mangrove swamp (wapasa)

Adolescent girl, hibiscus flower in hair and dabs of betel nut paste on cheeks, holds an infant, both wear shell necklaces

Children sit on house veranda, Imala (girl in front) wears a red shell necklace

Yam display: large heap of yams arranged within a circular framework, under a shade structure