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Kunagesa, a prominent man in Kula exchanges, holding basket and mashing betel nut with mortar and pestle

Western Highlands: anthropologist William Heaney

Man wears red hibiscus flowers in hair and smokes a cigarette

Young girl, Imala (daughter of Mogiovyeka), wearing short fiber skirt and shell necklace, dabs of betel-nut paste on her cheeks and nose

Western Highlands: woman wearing colorful net bag (bilum) suspended from head, beaded armband

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women interact at ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles and other valuables

Tukwaukwa village on Kiriwina: houses and coconut palms seen across a bay

Young boy carries bundle of firewood

Elderly woman, Bomtavau, kisses young infant

Soccer (football) match: crowd of spectators

Carving: M'lapokala makes a wooden bowl with stand, probably for tourist trade

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