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Canoes: men on outrigger canoe with sails up, paddles on platform, man (r) sits on fishing net

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women by partially full yam house, one holds a skirt for ritual exchange

Mortuary ceremony: women gathered for exchange of banana leaf bundles and long fiber skirts, note yam house (l)

Smiling woman, Mogiovyeka's wife, sitting on a veranda

Truck with damaged front end, adolescent boy stands beside engine with improvised repairs

Weaving: woman makes multi-layer, dyed skirt from banana and pandanus-leaf fibers, she sits on mat of woven pandanus leaves

Canoes: carved and painted prowboard and splashboard on a kula canoe

Girl holds a younger child, another girl holds split coconut, both of the younger children wear shell necklaces

Rouna River waterfall near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Mortuary ceremony: mourning women, faces and bodies painted black, beside a basket filed with banana leaf bundles

Western Highlands: garden of sweet potatoes and other crops, house in background

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women make ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles and long fiber skirts