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Woman in long fiber skirt, her head shaved as sign of mourning, with mortar and pestle for betel nut

Canoe-building: men work together to pull hollowed log from forest

Shells and seaweed inside split coconut

Western Highlands: road cut into hillside, smoke from garden fires

Canoe-building: Mogiovyeka attaches the 'duku' vine that will be used to pull the roughly carved canoe through the forest to the nearest inlet

Manus: Pondrilei uses pole to guide canoe near Pere village

Kula ring: woman displays a red shell-disc necklace (soulava)

Manus: Nayalapan Tanou and Nauna Pondros (center) and other women watch ritual shaving, Pere village

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: large basket of exchange valuables, banana leaf bundles stacked, woman (l) smokes

Tukwaukwa village on Kiriwina: clearing, child carries bundle on head

Kaileuna Island: Kaduaga village houses, canoes and beach

Elderly woman, Bomtavau, in a doorway