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Mowaroka stands next to bucket and poles from which bark has been removed, bark (background) will be made into tapa

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning woman carries decorated basket of a deceased relative

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

Dance: children wear short grass skirts, shell necklaces, and feather headdresses, carry flattened pandanus leaves

Sailboat named Laba, docked in Losuia, people crowded around

Western Highlands: men eating pork

Carving: M'lapokala uses a decorated adze to carve a wooden bowl with stand, probably for tourist trade

Friendship: adolescent girls in short fiber skirts, necklaces and garlands, girl (l) wears mourning necklace

Social interaction: village chief Murebodema and other men visiting and smoking cigarettes

Woman comforts crying baby, who holds medicine bottle

Mortuary ceremony: women with banana leaf bundles (wealth items) gathered for exchange

Weaving: woman makes skirt out of banana leaf fibers, some dyed red